It was a busy May. As I write this, I’m on retreat with the other astronomers of the Vatican Observatory at a small town in Abruzzo, Italy, discerning the future of our Observatory. Earlier in the month, we got to meet Pope Leo … twice! The first was a formal audience with the Foundation that supports our work; the following week, he visited our Observatory headquarters in Castel Gandolfo, near where he takes his Tuesdays off. And of course, as a backdrop to all this was the publication of Pope Leo’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas….
We astronomers have long been using AI as a way of sifting data, and the literature, for glimpses of the truth – The Tablet
