Being Human After AI: Daft Punk, Pope Leo and 'Magnifica Humanitas'
Credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File When Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, I wasn’t expecting it to remind me of Daft Punk. Yet the more I read “Magnifica Humanitas,” the more I found myself thinking about two French musicians, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who spent nearly 30 years masquerading as robots. Shortly after Daft Punk broke up in 2021, Bangalter looked back on the duo’s career in a way that changed how I heard everything they had recorded.
- ▪Credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File When Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, I wasn’t expecting it to remind me of Daft Punk.
- ▪Yet the more I read “Magnifica Humanitas,” the more I found myself thinking about two French musicians, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who spent nearly 30 years masquerading as robots.
- ▪Shortly after Daft Punk broke up in 2021, Bangalter looked back on the duo’s career in a way that changed how I heard everything they had recorded.
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Posted inMusic Being human after AI: Daft Punk, Pope Leo and ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ by Tim Schulz August 14, 2026August 14, 2026 Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email In this April 17, 2013 file photo, Thomas Bangalter, left, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, from the music group, Daft Punk, pose for a portrait in Los Angeles. Credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File When Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, I wasn’t expecting it to remind me of Daft Punk.
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