Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' warns that artificial intelligence and new technologies pose a choice between building a just, humane world or creating new forms of injustice a…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical and President Trump's executive order both address AI safety, but the AI industry's reliance on probabilistic safety is insufficient, according to a new deterministic safety …
Brendan Brown argues in a June 13 Mises.org opinion piece that Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical overlooks monetary inflation as a driver of malinvestment in AI. Brown contends that an unsound money regime…
A North Carolina software engineer, Erin Maus, reportedly secured a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work by citing Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. Maus, a Unitarian Universa…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," calls on Catholic colleges and universities to prioritize human relationships over technological efficiency in education. The document warns aga…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral re…
Catholic reactions to Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" have ranged from praise for its balanced approach to AI to criticism that it did not go far enough in addressing existential threa…
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* addressing artificial intelligence, marking the 135th anniversary of *Rerum Novarum*. The document explicitly ret…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* warns that artificial intelligence threatens to dominate humanity and calls for regulatory tools to curb its distorting effects on society. The docu…
Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, positioning the Catholic Church's response to artificial intelligence as a parallel to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical "Reru…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" identifies artificial intelligence as inherently male-dominated, arguing that AI systems trained primarily by men and on male-created data reinforce gen…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that "technology is never neutral," framing artificial intelligence as a commercial product that humanity must steer toward the common good…
Pope Leo XIV released his first papal encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, a 40,000-word document that warns tech companies' concentration of capital and power threatens to degrade human life. The encyc…
The White House indefinitely postponed its anticipated AI executive order, with David Sacks and others intervening to effectively kill the directive except for work on securing critical infrastructure…
Pope Leo XIV published *Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence* in May 2026, the first papal document dedicated entirely to AI. The 235-page encyc…
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral, directly rebutted Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI” on Thursday, arguing that European companies cannot afford to step back from defence-AI work while…
Pope Leo XIV, in his first encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, issued three direct calls to parents: delay giving children smartphones, actively supervise digital use against addictive design, and teach…
Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* was not written by artificial intelligence, according to critics of recent claims on LessWrong that the document was largely AI-generated. The Va…
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, fails to address the most pressing questions of transformative artificial intelligence, focusing instead on dated issues like algorithmic bias and …
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," integrates artificial intelligence within Catholic social teaching on human dignity and labor, but theologians and pastors must now extend its p…