French thinker and author of The Technological Society. He argued that technique becomes a self-justifying force, bending every human end toward efficiency.
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Themes and subthemes Jacques Ellul keeps running into.
Wyatt Graham returns to read Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — not the Pope “coming out against AI” but Catholic social teaching applied to the new thing. Technology is never neutral under the condition of the conditioners, the few oppress the many through its instruments, and prudential reasoning is the one thing AI cannot do.