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What the Pope Actually Said About AI

May 26, 2026·26 min·4-min readconversationaltechnology
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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, frames AI not as inherently good or evil, but as a pivotal societal force requiring moral and philosophical grounding centered on human dignity. The document warns against reducing human value to intelligence metrics and calls for gl

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