The Pope’s Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence: The Risks the Church Sees

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on artificial intelligence warns of the risks of disinformation, job displacement, and the concentration of technological power in the hands of a few.
Artificial Intelligence
Disinformation

The fraud narrative and its scapegoat: Technology

Technology has become the perfect scapegoat for fueling electoral fraud narratives that erode democratic trust without the need for evidence.

The end of anonymity: AI lowers the price of surveillance and makes freedom more expensive

Artificial intelligence is dismantling digital anonymity and turning mass surveillance into an increasingly inexpensive tool, while exercising political freedom is becoming more costly and risky.

When the national team was the state

Football continues to generate collective identity in Brazil and Argentina, but media and political fragmentation have diminished its capacity to reinforce the legitimacy of the state.
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AI

AI and satellite data: An opportunity with major challenges for Latin America

The combination of artificial intelligence and satellite data opens enormous potential to solve urgent problems in Latin America, but it also exposes the region’s dependency and the technological challenges it faces.

Latin America off the AI map: Why we urgently need our own language model

The Anglo-Saxon dominance in AI leaves Latin America without a voice in the digital world and makes it urgent to build technology that thinks from Latin America.

From artificial intelligence to artificial wisdom: AI and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

The expansion of artificial intelligence in Latin America reveals deep digital gaps that affect Indigenous Peoples, but it also opens the opportunity to incorporate their ancestral knowledge in a transition toward a more inclusive and decolonized “artificial wisdom.

Democracy

The Plan Colombia has fulfilled its purpose: now the country needs a new strategy

After transforming a country that once seemed on the brink of collapse, Colombia now faces the challenge of adapting its security policies to increasingly complex and transnational criminal threats.

Anger and hatred as drivers of the vote

In a Latin America marked by disenchantment, anger, fear, and rejection have become key forces for mobilizing voters, albeit at the cost of weaker governments and unstable public support.

Voting is no longer enough: The crisis...

The report warns that global democracy is experiencing a historic setback, in which elections no longer guarantee democratic systems in the face of the sustained advance of autocratization.

The day the obvious was “discovered”

The world “discovers,” with an official stamp, what was already known: that growth without limits destroys life—and the real novelty is the crack it opens to change the narrative.

COP30

Brazilians reach World Environment Day between apprehension and fatigue

Growing concern about climate change coexists with Brazilians’ fatigue and distrust regarding the responses of governments and businesses to the environmental crisis.

Nicaragua and the geopolitics of isolation

The regime’s isolation has relegated Nicaragua to a position of growing international irrelevance, weakening its capacity for influence and its integration into regional dynamics.

Crisis, resilience, or inertia in Latin American regionalism

Far from disappearing, the region’s integration mechanisms are seeking to adapt to political fragmentation through more flexible arrangements that preserve minimum spaces for cooperation and governance.

Ultimately, how many deportees disappear from the official figures?

Discrepancies in official deportation figures cast doubt on widely publicized records and suggest that thousands of cases are missing from public statistics.
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