About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of the Pope's encyclical on AI for women and the importance of protecting human dignity in the face of technological advancement.

The Pope just signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and it's about AI. His warning to the world: protect the human person before artificial intelligence erodes our work, our relationships, and our agency While tech companies race to build agents and automate everything, the Vatican did something unexpected. It created a commission on AI, not to celebrate the technology, but to protect human dignity. And when Pope Leo XIV presented the document, he did it standing beside a co-founder of the AI company Anthropic. What an unexpected twist. So what does this actually mean for women navigating AI at work right now? In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Julianne Hickey, a social justice leader, AI governance expert, and former director of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. Julianne has met Pope Francis twice, worked in Gaza and Palestine responding to humanitarian disasters, and now leads AI strategy for a major government organisation in New Zealand. This is a conversation about what happens when we stop asking what AI can do, and start asking what it should do. And why the future of AI isn't just a technical question. It's a spiritual one. (Recorded…

People in this episode

Host: Georgie Hubbard

Guest: Julianne Hickey

Topics covered

• AI ethics
• women in technology
• human dignity
• social justice
• agency
• Pope's encyclical

Keywords

• AI
• Pope
• women
• agency
• technology
• social justice
• human dignity
• encyclical

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vatican, Anthropic

Books & works: Magnifica Humanitas

Places: New Zealand, Gaza, Palestine

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