The Machine Will Serve Its Master

Sepia political-cartoon engraving of a Babel-like civic machine labeled wealth, power, delay and control processing Augusta residents while neighbors rebuild a common-good wall.

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is also a warning about power. Augusta shows the local machinery: taxes, governance, wealth, labor, race, and public systems that serve the masters who built them.
Meta description: Pope Leo XIV warns that technology serves its builders. Augusta shows how power, money, race, labor, and government form one machine.

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