In the 1920s, from a house on Lake Como, the theologian Romano Guardini watched the old world of craft and place give way to the world of machines, and wrote a set of letters that read as if they were addressed to us.
In this essay, our co-founder Joseph Terry takes up Guardini’s Letters from Lake Como as a guide to the AI moment: not a refusal of technology, and not a surrender to it, but the harder work of deciding what a human life is for when the tools can do almost anything.