How is religion keeping pace with the developments in AI? If we achieve transhumanism, what becomes of god? Are we heading for a 'semantic apocalypse'? We spoke to Paolo Benanti - adviser to Pope Francis on all things AI - about these questions and more in a truly fascinating conversation.

Father Paolo Benanti is an academic of the Franciscan of the Third Order Regular, a theologian, teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and is advisor to Pope Francis on issues of artificial intelligence and technology ethics.

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Your hosts are Gordon Johnstone - Head of DataFest at The Data Lab, Scotland's innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence hosted by the University of Edinburgh - and Lily Higham, Senior Automation Engineer at the BBC World Service.

Music provided by Post Coal Prom Queen.