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Laying the intellectual foundation necessary for building Christian societies free from the violent presuppositions of liberalism.

  1. 6D AGO

    Debate: Should We Delete Catholic AI? | Matthew Sanders and Marc Barnes

    In this podcast, Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard (creator of MagisteriumAI), and Marc Barnes, editor of New Polity, debate whether Catholics should build and use AI chatbots. Barnes argues that Catholic AI chatbots are objectively evil because they generate probabilistic statements about the faith, are irresponsible in their responses, and are inherently fake conversations with non-persons. Sanders argues that Catholics should embrace this new technological development and that there is an openness from the Vatican about the creation of a true artificial intelligence. This debate is hosted by Edmund Mitchell of the Faith and AI Project.

  2. FEB 3

    Pope Leo XIV on AI Chatbots: Preserving Human Voices and Faces

    What is the Catholic response to AI? Pope Leo XIV, in his recent message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, takes a critical look at AI: namely, how it is "encroach[ing] upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships." Pope Leo asserts that our faces and voices are sacred, a witness to the unique, singular dignity of each human person. With AI already mimicking persons in social media and through deepfakes, the Pope calls for overcoming the "anthropomorphizing tendencies of AI systems." In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Reuben Slife go line-by-line through the message of Pope Leo, and discuss it's implications for the Catholic approach to AI.

  3. JAN 22

    AI Writing and the Collapse of a Literate Culture

    The book has long been the place of completed thought, able to incorporate previous work and advance new thought. That is going away. AI generation is polluting the discourse; leading to a state where all "new" publications are, in fact, summarized AI restatements of the previous state of the question. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the effects of AI on the the technology of the books, and how a literate culture persists.

  4. 2025-12-29

    We Survived Another Year | 2025 Wrap-up

    Happy New Year! In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss New Polity's 2025 year, the books and magazines published, and look ahead to the New Year. Thank you to everyone who read or listened to us this year.

  5. 2025-12-19

    Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave | New Polity 2026

    We are excited to announce New Polity's 2026 conference: Man, Woman, Tyrant, Slave. Learn more and register at https://newpolity.com/2026 The sixth annual New Polity conference aims to refute bad ideas concerning marriage and sexual difference; to debate the metaphysics of man and woman; to argue for a profound continuity between the order of man and woman and the political and cosmic order as a whole; to shed a light on the tyranny-destroying potential of marriage; and, in sum, to rediscover the mystery and purpose of sexual difference as revealed by the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Andrew Willard Jones discuss the relation of man and woman, the metaphysical implications, and the 2026 conference. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the critique of America, structures of sin, and the idea of the American people.

  6. 2025-12-11

    America's Structures of Sin

    We are excited to announce our next New Polity Magazine: Issue 6.4 on The Critique of America, featuring essays by Reuben Slife, David L. Schindler, Michael Hanby, John Byron Kuhner and more. Pre-order is now available! Visit: ⁠https://newpolity.com/single-issues/6-4⁠ In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the critique of America, structures of sin, and the idea of the American people.

  7. 2025-11-06

    Debate: Is it Wrong to Talk with an AI Chatbot?

    Marc Barnes believes that AI chatbots are evil, and that having a faux conversation with AI chatbots is wrong. Joseph Hobbs, Senior Solution Architect at Databricks, disagrees. In this podcast, they discuss the nature of conversation, how AI imitates conversation, and the Catholic response to AI Chatbots.

  8. 2025-10-28

    Christianity Against the Technocratic Paradigm

    In this podcast, Alex Denley and Marc Barnes discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine on AI, the Church's social teaching on technocracy and the technocratic paradigm, and the Christian response to Artificial Intelligence.

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Laying the intellectual foundation necessary for building Christian societies free from the violent presuppositions of liberalism.

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  • Creator
    New Polity
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
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    © Copyright: New Polity 2020
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