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

I've sat quietly in the background, watching her work out her destiny—feeling a good deal like a god in the machine.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph