{"id":44,"date":"2026-06-10T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:54:06","slug":"44-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/44-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So the Pope doesn&#8217;t like AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-ext-preset--group--natural-1--section ext-animate--on has-background-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-ext-preset--group--natural-1--section--1\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center ext-animate--on is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-e2b55219 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center ext-animate--on is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:1.5rem\">Some of you may remember a time \u2014 roughly twenty years ago \u2014 when blogs were a thing and, of course, I had one. That chapter closed quietly (and I won&#8217;t tell you the name of that former blog). Yet in the times of AI, automated text, and tiptoeing around microblogs to avoid conflict, it seems about right to go back to <strong>lengthier<\/strong> reflections and rants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m reopening this space to share academic and political reflections, though I promise not to take any of it too seriously. After all, if I have survived in academia it has been thanks to a good dose of humour and other legal substances (mostly coffee and craft beer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\">To kick things off, I&#8217;m sharing my first GitHub repository \u2014 built with the assistance of Claude \u2014 which tries to answer a question that came up over lunch at my faculty the other day: is this Pope really as progressive as people say? And if so, by what criteria, and compared to whom? At the same time, it sort of aims at pissing off this otherwise cool Pope, as apparently he despises AI even more than I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\">The corpus is, I&#8217;ll admit, minimal. The question is not. Have a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htmlpreview.github.io\/?https:\/\/gist.githubusercontent.com\/carolgalais\/228cd3c48f0dac66b761c046dc0f8db3\/raw\/51dda45d4a410ab7407b7ff70a48dc5cae513046\/papal_compass.html\">The thing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:1.5rem\">More to come. Probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons ext-animate--on is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center ext-animate--on is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-ext-preset--image--natural-1--image-1--content-left ext-animate--on extendify-image-import is-style-ext-preset--image--natural-1--image-1--content-left--2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1470\" height=\"2205\" src=\"https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9.jpg 1470w, https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carolgalais.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo-1579017308347-e53e0d2fc5e9-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1470px) 100vw, 1470px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may remember a time \u2014 roughly twenty years ago \u2014 when blogs were a thing and, of course, I had one. 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