AI in Education Daily
Can AI build a Babel Tower in schools?
Published: 3 June 2026 at 02:00 Europe/London
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Highlights
- Today we are exploring a really fascinating piece from Vatican News, an article by Isabella Piro, reporting on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, a document called ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence’.
- It’s not just about integrating a new tool; it's about fundamentally rethinking how we prepare students to navigate this pivotal choice.
- It's about ensuring students don't develop what I call "cognitive debt" from over-reliance on AI, where they outsource their thinking along with the doing.
- The encyclical also talks about "social justice" and "peace." And this brings us directly to the role of AI as an equalizer.
- Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical pushes us firmly into Box 2 thinking.
