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[Darryl Toerien Keymaster]

It has been some time since updating here.

In terms of working my own way through the issues surrounding GenAI, see the following:

• Artificial Intelligence and the Atrophication of Intellect and Academic Integrity, an article for Synergy (Volume 23, Number 1, 2025), the journal of the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV).
• AI: The perfect storm that rages against the evolving dynamism through which we form ourselves as human beings, an article for ACCESS (Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025), the national journal of the Australian School Library Association.

I have also been discussing GenAI in relation to inquiry with Elizabeth Hutchinson for our podcast series, FOSIL, Education and School Libraries, specifically the following episodes:

• Episode 21 | Clarifying the purpose of education through the focus of the school library (February 2026).
• Episode 22 | Generative AI and inquiry: Part 1: Preserving human voice in education (March 2026).
• Episode 23 | Generative AI and Inquiry: Part 2: The importance of Connecting (March 2026).
• Episode 24 | Generative AI and Inquiry: Part 3: Looking at Investigate and Construct (April 2026).
• Episode 25 | Generative AI and Inquiry: Part 4: Getting to Wonder (May 2026).

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On 15 May 2026, Pope Leo signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity): On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.

There is much to reflect on in this encyclical, many themes of which we have already touched on above, and I will share more on this tomorrow.

[Darryl Toerien Keymaster]

Continued from yesterday…

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has produced a website for Magnifica Humanitas, which includes an infographic for each chapter of the encyclical:

Chapter 1 (download as PDF or JPG)

Chapter 2 (download as PDF or JPG)

Chapter 3 (download as PDF or JPG)

Chapter 4 (download as PDF or JPG)

Chapter 5 (download as PDF or JPG)

 

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