Pope Leo XIV issued the first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, calling for protection of human dignity and agency amid technology that can replace people in professional and social roles. Artificial intelligence should be disarmed and freed from logics that enable domination, exclusion, and death. Like nuclear energy, it should serve everyone and the common good. Decisions about technology must remain connected to conscience and responsibility, rather than being treated as separate technical matters. The message urges constant attention to the human person and warns against carelessness with powerful technical instruments. It also calls for collaboration between those building AI and those able to discern its impacts from within society.
"Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, in which he outlined his desire to protect human dignity and agency in an age when technology threatens to replace people in many professional and social roles."
"Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of of domination, exclusion and death. Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all, and of the common good."
"Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility. Let's not fear artificial intelligence, but constantly keep the question of the human in play. We cannot be careless with our most powerful technical instruments."
"Today is just the beginning the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from the inside, cannot. Amen. Thank you very much."
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