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.

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

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.

“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.