Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, has accelerated the debate on the fundamental nature of the technology. Could AI have a conscience? How does it think? What does its rapid advance portend?

The new pontiff's first encyclical challenges the belief that technological superiority grants the right to dominate others, a principle driving Silicon Valley and western…

Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, has accelerated the debate on the fundamental nature of the technology. Could AI have a conscience? How…

Many will focus on the scope of Magnifica Humanitas. But on artificial intelligence, the Catholic Church and the populist Right share a useful framework.