Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is much more than a reflection on artificial intelligence. It is a meditation on the human good in our contemporary context, a resounding call for each of us to take seriously the task of “safeguarding the human person” in our time and place.
The fundamental theme of the encyclical is the necessity to take the time to think, to hazard those fundamental philosophical questions that require patience and earnest inquiry, questions that cannot be answered by Large Language Models, because they do not echo the past but help shape the future.
