Thinking about humans and AI and creation

This weekend Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, released an urgent plea to "pace the frontier" models of AI. His is neither the first, nor the latest, such plea. It is hard to imagine our government doing much that will be helpful on this issue.

I have been keeping an eye (and ear) on a variety of resources that now are all pretty much in consensus that something needs to be done. I find Cory Doctorow’s latest book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI to be the most compelling and constructive, because it lays out the economic challenges in clear terms and calls for collective action.

Here are the resources I’ve been trying to learn from:

• Peter Levenstrong’s substack
• Ilia Delio’s substack
• the DELTA project at Notre Dame
• TIDEL: Housed at Union Theological Seminary, technology, innovation, and digital engagement Lab
• The Center for Humane Technology
• Pope Leo’s Encyclical on AI Magnifica Humanitas
• "We must pace the frontier" by Anthropic’s CEO in September of 2026
• "Productive friction" You will have to create a free login to view this.
• Critical media literacy for an AI world
• Susan David’s "emotional agility"
• Priya Parker on "the art of fighting"
• The Pro-Human AI Declaration
• The Church AI Toolkit
• The Algorithm and the Almighty a Presbyterian document
• The ELCA issue statement on AI
• Reclaiming Human Agency in an Age of AI, a Journal of Moral Theology piece
• Claude’s constitution
• CEFE-AI: Consortium for Faith and Ethics in AI