Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter of Artificial Intelligence

Read the full text of Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) here.   

Report from Vatican News:   https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html  

More on Magnifica Humanis:    https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas-presentation-ai-disarmament.html  

What is "Rerum Novarum" (On New Things) by Pope Leo XIII (1891)?   Here is brief overview:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5EzVPtmZtM 

Pope Leo XIV has taken up the legacy of his predecessor, writing a social encyclical which addresses one of the principal challenges of the contemporary age: artificial intelligence.

Divided into five chapters, Magnifica humanitas has an underlying premise: technology is not “a force antagonistic to humanity” (4), nor is it “inherently evil” (9). However, “technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.

Therefore, Pope Leo XIV appeals for people to build “for the common good” and to “remain human,” following a courageous mentality of shared responsibility and communion, so that the world “will come to recognize the human heart as the place where God desires to dwell” (16).