John P Slattery

Something I wish more people would realize.

So excited to have Paris coming to Duquesne on November 6!! Free to attend online or in person, register now! www.duq.edu/research/cen...

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

"The idea of live-streaming a firing squad execution is reprehensible in the extreme and will cause moral injury to everyone involved. We need to ask ourselves who we have become as a nation when senior officials decide to make a spectacle of state-sponsored violence." ⚓️

the Catholic Church and the death penalty

Barbarism.

Plus, events are coming! Some are already listed on my website and more will be posted soon. Stay tuned: parismarx.com/speaking/

Preorders are incredibly important to a book’s success — even more than you might think! Find more preorder links and get more information on HYPERSCALE from the book’s website: hyperscalebook.com

HYPERSCALE tells the full story of the data center buildout and the backlash it’s facing. It’s out in just two weeks — but I need a favor! If you’re planning to buy it, it would make a huge difference if you place a preorder. Get your copy today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...

I was disappointed with the lack of critical views in this piece. What about the theologians and philosophers who did not drink the kool-aid? This feels like a piece written to boost an IPO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

PSA for journalists: National Catholic Reporter is hiring a News Editor to help lead all facets of news coverage. It's a great opportunity given downward trends in media but a great place to work no matter the times. True pros, no A.I... www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

In October, my new book HYPERSCALE hits shelves in North America and Europe. But my dive into the world of data centers started over two years ago when I put together a series called DATA VAMPIRES. With opposition to data centers exploding, I decided this was a good moment to bring the series back.

On a Zoom call with 200 people and I assume more in person (can't see the room but based on how many people are laughing at how a guillotine can slice a bagel.) Average age has to be like 75; love seniors ofc and shows how much interest there is in the ethics of AI. by @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social

Many are reasonably skeptical of religion. I too struggle to connect with cultures that avoid admitting wrongs, repenting, & finding hope in the art of restitution & seeking mercy. So I'm heartened to work with John Slattery, organizer/scholar on science & eugenics www.science.org/content/blog...

So I'm grateful to be a fellow at Duquesne's Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law to develop a (TBA) initiative connecting experts & organizers with diverse Christian communities who need to understand, act, and re-imagine the role of technology in our lives.

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.

In "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities", I call on humanities scholars to make legible to the world how even as we work with and write texts, the words aren't the work. This recent paper by Lauren Goodlad of is an excellent example: doi.org/10.1525/rep....

Brianne Bell Jacobs @briannejacobs.bsky.social opens v.15.2 with her incisive theological critique of AI in "Infinite Generation, Infinite Consumption: Theological Anthropology & Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence." As she argues, while promising... doi.org/10.55476/001...

A Brief History of Nobody Reads Anymore 🧵

Pope Leo’s call for disarmament leaves room for the possibility that AI can have good uses. But those uses can only be discovered by those who work for flourishing communities. @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social on 'Magnifica humanitas':

This is powerful stuff from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social!! "If tech does not serve humans in their quest for a good life, then we must discard it. And if we can't stop the slop vampire, at least we can refuse to bow our heads....“What Enoch makes, Enoch will break.”

"Leo's call to disarm AI is simultaneously ethical, theological, technological, and, referencing Laudato si’, ecological." @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social: 'Armed and Dangerous'

.@antoniospadaro.bsky.social: ‘Magnifica humanitas’ challenges Silicon Valley’s Promethean pretensions.

"AI is armed and dangerous, and the act of defusing it will take work from us all." @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social on Pope Leo's 'Magnifica Humanitas':

My latest for @commonwealmagazine.org , a reflection on what I consider the most powerful metaphor in the Pope's letter, and an urgent call: Disarming AI

with all this 'construction site' language in #magnificahumanitas, I think we should start referring to Pope Leo XIV as "Bob the Builder" Prevost

i really love the act of expanding and specifying the technocratic paradigm in this letter. 185 "The modern Babel can be seen not only in the globalized technocratic paradigm, but also in the remote clash between opposing imperialisms, between powers that wish to preserve their supremacy...."

I could live on paragraph 30 the rest of my life: "Rerum Novarum thereby continues to remind us that there is no authentic evangelization that does not also affect the structures of human society." #MagnificaHumanitas

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Imagine being forced to subsidize the water and power costs for a data center that will generate NO continuing staff positions, all so that a billionaire can take your job.

My latest of AI and inevitability for @ctewc.bsky.social "An Ethicist’s Guide to Our Technological Dystopia" disq.us/t/53krpwg

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

"AI is a loaded gun in the hands of children." Good piece in @commonweal.bsky.social by @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social

"Remember when they told you the war was costing $1 billion a day? Turns out it was $3 billion a day just for the munitions. Oops." x.com/jekavanagh/s... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"It feels right that Donald Trump is the one to bring AI into the mainstream of war-making. Trump is susceptible to all forms of sycophancy, for which chatbots are infamous." @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social on Trump's AI war:

“Our federal government is sending a message that only a narrow definition of humanities can be supported, celebrated and invested in, and that there are only a narrow set of people, culture and experiences that are worth understanding in depth"

My latest piece, about the nature of AI and the current war in Iran.