By Vatican News
Publication Date: 2026-06-03 12:28:00
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical ‘Magnifica humanitas’ offers AI developers a valuable anthropological contribution as they design systems with which human beings interact at a deeply personal level, according to Taylor Black, Microsoft’s Director of AI and Venture Ecosystems.
By Devin Watkins
Massive advances in consumer-facing artificial intelligence systems in recent years have led the Church to engage more deeply with companies building the technologies of the future.
That movement has led to criticism of the Church’s engagement with tech companies to help direct the development of AI, as well as to criticism within the tech world of those who dialogue with the Church.
But by pushing religion and theology to an “optional realm,” developers risk missing out on more deeply understanding how their customers think, according to Taylor Black.
Mr. Black serves as the Director of AI and Venture Ecosystems in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at…
