Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, published in May 2026. It addresses the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, calling for technology to be placed at the service of human dignity and the common good rather than logics of power and domination.
Magnifica Humanitas
Today the Vatican has published Magnifica Humanitas, the first Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIV.
It has been released on the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, which was a rallying call to safeguard human dignity at the height of Industrial Revolution.
The new document calls for a careful and prudent approach to our current digital revolution in order to “safeguard the human person in the time of artificial intelligence”:
Even when machines excel in efficiency, a human face that asks to be gazed upon remains the center of our history.
— Magnifica Humanitas, 233
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