Pope Leo XIV has stepped directly into the global artificial intelligence (AI) debate with the release of Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), his first encyclical. (An encyclical is a major papal document that explains the Catholic Church’s position on important social and moral issues.)
The 245-paragraph text focuses on how AI could reshape jobs, politics, war and even human relationships. But at its core, the document is less about technology itself and more about power. More specifically, who controls AI, who benefits from it and who could be harmed by it.
