The Factory and the Feed: Why the Vatican Thinks AI Is the New Industrial Revolution (opens in new tab)

At 11:43 p.m., a husband and wife lie beside one another in bed staring into separate algorithmic realities. He is watching videos that quietly intensify his grievances. She is scrolling through therapeutic language teaching her how to reinterpret every disappointment diagnostically. Neither person is technically alone. Neither person is fully together. An artificial intelligence somewhere is refining behavioral predictions about both of them in real time while the marriage itself competes wi...