Pontiff’s plea for compassion puts humanity first as AI reshapes world

May 31, 2026 — 6:00am

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In my final opinion column as religion editor of The Age I played a practical joke on the opinion editor, a good friend, by filing my article in Latin. I used Google Translate – a form of artificial intelligence. A decade on, I fear the joke is on me.

That is the only time I have used AI in writing, but its meteoric rise might be society-defining, very soon if not already. It cannot be left to the dominant voices.

Who today believes Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk or the Chinese or American governments have the faintest interest in the public good compared with the........

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