Business Latest | What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI by Elena Betti
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Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, frames artificial intelligence not merely as a technological advance but as a powerful, invisible infrastructure reshaping society, economics, and morality. Echoing the Catholic social doctrine of *Rerum Novarum*, the Pope warns that the concentration of digital platforms, data, and algorithms in the hands of a few amplifies inequalities, threatens human dignity, manipulates truth, endangers meaningful work, and even jeopardizes the ethics of warfare by delegating lethal decisions to machines. He calls for “disarming technology” – stripping AI of monopolistic control, ensuring transparency, and making it accessible to a plurality of actors – so that it serves the common good rather than becoming a tool of economic, political, or military domination. The encyclical stresses the need for cultural and educational efforts to help people recognize these mechanisms, emphasizing that the decisive issue is not the technology itself but who governs it and under what vision of humanity.
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