Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.

VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Leo XIV yesterday called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a…

AI “must be at the service of all, and of the common good,” the pope said

Artificial intelligence could undermine what it means to be human, intervention warns

The pontiff presented his encyclical at the Vatican alongside AI experts.

In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.

The pope takes a stand against those who want the morality and ethics of artificial intelligence to be entirely in the hands of its creators.

Leo XIV’s new encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” presents a remarkable case for placing moral concerns, and not profit, or competitive advantage, or efficiency, at the center of…

“It’s not about AI. It’s about protecting the human person in the age of AI.”

He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it no…

In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time...

Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.

The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.

Pope Leo's first encyclical voices his concerns about technology and AI. The pope cautions about the illusions AI bots can create, and how important actual human relationships are.