Re:AI as Normal Technology
by AStonesThrow on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:40AM
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Humanae vitae by Pope Paul VI, July 25, 1976
https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/docume...
Consequences of Artificial Methods
17. Responsible men can ... first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. ... [A] man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
After these technologies, certainly life is "normal" as in "life goes on" but the social impacts are most definitely new and transformative. Fast travel, instantaneous direct and mass communications, control over family formation all have had massive impact on how people live and interact and then transform again.