Pope Leo XIV has launched his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warning that artificial intelligence and other new technologies must be placed at the service of human dignity rather than domination, exclusion or war.
The document addresses the moral, social and spiritual challenges raised by AI, transhumanism and rapid technological change. Its publication date marked the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, the landmark 1891 encyclical on the rights of workers and the upheavals caused by the Industrial Revolution.
