Ratzinger's Warning

Ratzinger feared that modern technology would prove too convenient and lead to the eventual evaporation of our freedom as creations in the image and likeness of God. He feared that the security technology provides would become the determinative principle usurping Christian morality. It is clear that our modern technologists are dreaming of the future Ratzinger had hoped to avoid. Altman’s 2023 tweet, that A.I., not humans, will be the greatest force for economic empowerment, shows as much. However, that does not prove that A.I. is necessarily any different than the technology or the technological thinking that has been present since the Enlightenment. To do that, you have to look at what the technology can do.