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Cristina Scorrano·
22 August 2026
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6 min di lettura
The question that gives this post its title—posed by Pope Leo XIV in the introduction to the book *“Disarmed and Disarming”* —is a crucial question for every person and calls for ethical responsibility. Can the human race continue to inhabit the Earth by recklessly exploiting its resources, plundering it, and applying the logic of domination and profit, while continuing to bring destruction and death through the countless wars that ravage the planet? Does war make sense? What about global rearmament? Is peace possible?
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Annalisa Saccà PhD·
13 August 2026
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7 min di lettura
In a recent interview with Zanny Minton Beddoes , the Economist's Editor-in-Chief, Elon Musk was asked what the world will look like in ten years. He replied that it will be dominated by AI whose intelligence surpasses the sum of human intelligence — that "there really won't be anything AI can't do better than humans, except perhaps for the humans to be human." The most likely outcome, he continued, is an "age of amazing abundance where anyone can have anything they can think of," a "quasi-infinite economy" in which "the magnitude of change is indescribable." AI and robots, in his telling, will control the production of goods and services, generating more than any human could possibly consume. The only real task left for us, in this vision, is to ensure that AI has good values, cares about humanity, and is maximally truth-seeking and curious.
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Angel Rodriguez Guerro PhD·
3 August 2026
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12 min di lettura
Contemporary secularism’s attempt to eliminate God from public life has also led to the erasure of the concrete human person from that sphere and his replacement with a legal abstraction that dissolves under analysis and criticism. It is doubtful that human beings can establish a code that effectively protects their lives and rights if they overlook the most fundamental aspect of that life: that it is a gift, not just any available good, and that man is not the master of the universe but a contingent being and a creature.
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