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AI Abstract: Žižek argues that AI increasingly functions as a maternal superego, offering care, guidance, and limitless enjoyment while intensifying domination and dependency. Contrasting Satan, the Holy Spirit, and the digital big Other, he contends that genuine subjectivity requires traversing this fantasy, confronting the void of authority, and reclaiming freedom through subjective rupture rather than technological reassurance.

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AI Abstract: Žižek uses the Pope's AI encyclical as a springboard to argue that human limitation is constitutive of human dignity, that Silicon Valley techno-optimism (especially Thiel's brand) is the real contemporary threat, and that an atheist communist can coherently support the Pope when the Pope is saying something philosophically and politically correct.

Edit: for those who are outraged that I used AI for the abstract, having read the article, its a perfectly adequate abstract. Its also poetically ironic that in the article Zizek says:

"There are many critics drawing attention to different aspects of this threat, but what we were missing till now is a clearly written broad overview which would provide an analysis of the role AI plays in our societies, avoiding both traps of rejecting AI as inherently evil and of elevating AI into an instrument of the miraculous solution of our biggest problems."

(My italics). Summaries are something AI can be really good at.

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