god in the machine

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Instead of blanket-dismissing tech entrepreneurs or wholesale manifesting a god in the machine, Pope Leo has sought a careful, studied, moral middle ground: one that encourages technological progress but upholds human dignity above all.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

We’ve been the god in the machine all along.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021

Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2019

The girl he had snatched from obscure slavery liked to study the visage of the old monomaniac who had been the god in the machine of her existence.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway