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.

Peter G. Kirchschläger assesses Leo XIV’s first encyclical, which addresses the threats to freedom and dignity posed by 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…