Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical was billed as being on artificial intelligence, but what it delivered alongside that was an in-depth treatise on the American Pope’s assessment of the state of the world.
“We must, then, avoid the ‘Babel syndrome’,” warned Pope Leo in the early lines of Magnifica Humanitas. Issued on May 25, 10 days after it was signed, the encyclical’s lengthy build-up piqued interest as to what the first Pope from the United States would have to say regarding AI and the next stage of the technological revolution currently under way.
