High listeners, I wanted to let you know about a fascinating and inspiring podcast called

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith. As Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, Brad Smith has a

front row seat to some of the most important developments in technology today. He also has a

well-honed perspective on the role that governments, businesses, and cultural innovators play in

shaping the present and future of technology. On Tools and Weapons, Brad sits down with

the luminaries like Karris Wischer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to explore new solutions to

some of society's greatest challenges from stem, skilling to the renewables revolution. Tools

and Weapons goes deep on the promise and the peril of the digital age. Today I'm going to play you a

clip of an episode featuring Father Paolo Benadi, a Franciscan monk who is also a technology and

bioethics professor and advisor to Pope Francis on the ethics of artificial intelligence. He and Brad

discuss how and why the Pope came to take an interest in emerging tech like AI and what that

might mean for its development. While you're listening, make sure to follow Tools and Weapons with

Brad Smith on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You're not only teaching at a

great university in Rome, you're not only building on your engineering expertise and ethics,

but you have emerged in recent years as really the great technology and ethics advisor within

the Vatican, including to Pope Francis. How did that happen? Sometimes you did them project

their results before you do it. Everything happened with human connections, simple with the people

that you meet, discussion that you have, and when you pose questions and people say this is the

same question that I had in my heart. That happened that you find people that are connected,

and the same things happen with Microsoft. I meet people and sharing with people this deep kind

of question, he built up a place in which those questions could be simple asquit. And that happened

also in the Vatican in the Holiesys, so simple questioning technology, not in a way in which someone

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