Melissa Terras

Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.

Articles & links

This is so useful - an annotated version of the Pope's encyclical on AI, pointing to academic work that provides further detail: huggingface.co/spaces/socie...

The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics huggingface.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Hugging Face's society-ethics team added 105 scholarly AI ethics citations to Pope Leo XIV's May 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
  • The encyclical declares technology 'is never neutral' and warns that 'never has humanity had such power over itself.'
  • The annotation project is open for community contributions linking academic AI ethics research to the papal document.
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Oh yeah, there are loads of us hanging out in the #AI4LAM community just avoiding any of the hand-wringing and getting on with building useful, ethical, and specific AI tools that improve the information environment and access to historical information… an alternative pathway …

Homepage - Ai4lam ai4lam.org
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