Category: Posts
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Pope Leo and the AI apocalypses
New in America, I argue that a central thread of Pope Leo’s encyclical is to counter the secular apocalypses that have spread in AI culture: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/
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Deadline extended: “Why We Come Together”
Deadline extended to May 30! Submit your abstracts for “Why We Come Together: Media, Religion, and Community” and come visit us in Boulder this October, along with Fred Moten, Jen Deerinwater, and more: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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The “construction sites” of Magnifica Humanitas
Just out in The Conversation, I explore how Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical could reshape the AI industry, akin to what his predecessor did in the Gilded Age: https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249
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Student AI UX
“Students can experience AI models as not just something someone else does for you but something that can happen in your own community”: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/
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Open call: Liberatory Media Residency
Media makers, spiritual innovators, activists—especially in Colorado: Please consider applying for our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s $25,000 Liberatory Media Residency for next academic year. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/04/17/open-call-liberatory-media-residency
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Call for papers: Why We Come Together
Our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s next conference is on the radical arts of gathering. Join us—along with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and more speakers TBA. The call for abstracts is out, due May 1: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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Timnit Gebru on Looks Like New
I’m thrilled to share that my lab’s podcast, Looks Like New, just hosted the brilliant Timnit Gebru on the possibilities of community-serving AI—listen and subscribe here: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/can-ai-be-rebuilt-to-serve-communities/
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The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church
My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil discourse. Catholics, we cannot participate in this: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/03/19/government-trump-america-catholic-church/
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I’m organizing a panel at 4S!
For the first time, I’m organizing a panel at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science, in Toronto. I love this conference. If you do too, please consider submitting a paper! https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php
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ETHBoulder talk published
My talk and the new ETHBoulder conference is now up—”From Determinism to Determinism in Online Governance”: https://x.com/ethereumboulder/status/2022687420194427344 More or less the written version is here: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/02/constitutional-agents-for-online-governance/