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"path": "/2026/06/01/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape/",
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"textContent": "(The Conversation) — Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.",
"title": "Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape"
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