Beware of Catholic Robots! is a 96-page issue of The Margins on Catholic AI, frictionless faith, spiritual anxiety as a market, and the machines that want your soul.
This issue is about chatbots with halos, prayer apps with progress bars, Catholic tech companies with vague answers, and the strange new world where formation is being treated like content delivery.
But really, it is about the human person.
Inside:
Beware of Catholic Robots!
On Catholic AI, transparency, and why Catholic branding is not the same thing as Catholic trust.
The Catholic Trenchcoat
On warning Catholics about secular AI while quietly using secular AI under the hood.
Simulated Compassion Is Not Pastoral Care
On machines that sound gentle, answer endlessly, and carry no real responsibility.
Your Privacy Policy Is a Moral Document
On confession-shaped data and spiritual vulnerability.
Money Changers in the App Store
On spiritual hunger, recurring revenue, and the temptation to call a market a mission.
Plus: ethical labor, data centers, beige pudding Catholicism, the soul as not a progress bar, the Witch of Endor, Catholic TV parodies, saints who would have hated AI, and a final reminder that you are still allowed to be human.
Details:
96 printed pages
48-page folded booklet
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen of St. Anthony’s Tongue
Note: This issue is a few dollars more than usual because it is much larger than a typical issue of The Margins and cost more to print.
The machine is not inevitable.
The market is not almighty.
Your soul is not a product.
Beware of Catholic Robots! is a 96-page issue of The Margins on Catholic AI, frictionless faith, spiritual anxiety as a market, and the machines that want your soul.
This issue is about chatbots with halos, prayer apps with progress bars, Catholic tech companies with vague answers, and the strange new world where formation is being treated like content delivery.
But really, it is about the human person.
Inside:
Beware of Catholic Robots!
On Catholic AI, transparency, and why Catholic branding is not the same thing as Catholic trust.
The Catholic Trenchcoat
On warning Catholics about secular AI while quietly using secular AI under the hood.
Simulated Compassion Is Not Pastoral Care
On machines that sound gentle, answer endlessly, and carry no real responsibility.
Your Privacy Policy Is a Moral Document
On confession-shaped data and spiritual vulnerability.
Money Changers in the App Store
On spiritual hunger, recurring revenue, and the temptation to call a market a mission.
Plus: ethical labor, data centers, beige pudding Catholicism, the soul as not a progress bar, the Witch of Endor, Catholic TV parodies, saints who would have hated AI, and a final reminder that you are still allowed to be human.
Details:
96 printed pages
48-page folded booklet
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen of St. Anthony’s Tongue
Note: This issue is a few dollars more than usual because it is much larger than a typical issue of The Margins and cost more to print.
The machine is not inevitable.
The market is not almighty.
Your soul is not a product.
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