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Magnifica Humanitas: cuestonamiento a los poderes contemporáneos y llamado a construir un mundo distinto
La Encíclica Magnifica Humanitas se presenta como una de las intervenciones más ambiciosas del magisterio social de la iglesia reciente. Dedicada a la “custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial”, prolonga la tradición iniciada por Rerum novarum (1891) y relee las transformaciones tecnológicas y del poder contemporáneos, a la luz de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia. No se trata solamente de una encíclica sobre inteligencia artificial. Es, más bien, una reflexión sobre la condición humana en el tiempo de la digitalización, pero sobre todo, una reflexión crítica acerca de los poderes que actualmente dominan el mundo: el poder del capitalismo, el poder de la tecnocracia y el poder del militarismo, con la propuesta de una mirada humanista alternativa y la invitación a construir un mundo distinto.
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