Being Human After AI: Daft Punk, Pope Leo and 'Magnifica Humanitas'
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- Daft Punk's robot persona was a performance art project that ultimately served as a warning against becoming dehumanized, as co-founder Thomas Bangalter later confessed he would not want to be a robot.
- Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' warns that artificial intelligence risks causing humanity to 'perder su rostro' (lose its face), emphasizing the danger of becoming faceless to one another.
- The article's author, a tech executive, shares a personal story where AI prepared meeting data but could not replace human presence—staying with a struggling founder revealed the limits of machines.
- AI can free humans for deeper connection by handling efficiency, but it cannot provide love, presence, or the capacity to 'guard with love' (custodiando con amor) what is precious.
- The encyclical and Daft Punk's final songs ('Touch', 'One More Time') both point to the same truth: intelligence without love cannot gather or save us—only face-to-face human encounter and love can.