A Pope Who Confronts the Machines In his very first official address, Pope Leo XIV rang the alarm bell over the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence. Though not yet formally inaugurated, the new pontiff made it clear that one of the defining missions of his papacy would be the protection of human dignity in the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing (QC) are two of the most promising technological frontiers of the 21st century. AI has revolutionized data science, automation, healthcare, finance, and entertainment, while quantum computers promise to solve computational problems that are practically unreachable for classical machines. But are these technologies competitors or complementary tools? Will quantum computers…