By @catholicmelb
Publication Date: 2026-05-25 00:00:00
Pope Leo XIV published his groundbreaking encyclical on artificial intelligence Magnifica humanitas On May 25, he compared trying to build an AI future that excludes God to the “Tower of Babel” and emphasized the need to protect human dignity as it is “threatened by new forms of dehumanization.”
“The risk of dehumanization – of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means – is an old and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical form,” writes Pope Leo in his first encyclical: Magnifica humanitas: To protect the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.
“In the age of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, it is our urgent duty to remain deeply human.” “We must lovingly preserve the greatness of humanity given to us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace,” he says.