What Is Magnifica Humanitas and Why Should You Care?
The encyclical says AI must serve human dignity and the common good, and it urges protection for workers, children and democratic institutions.
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Has Leo XIV Already Lost to a Silicon Valley Godhead?
Readers may have noticed that when I’m not acting as the Devil’s Advocate, I’m actively involved in seeking to understand what it means to dialogue with an AI chatbot. I’ve been doing this as a public performance on Fair Observer on a weekly and occasionally daily basis since January 2023, barely a month following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. My aim all along has been similar to that of a social worker, who understands that their role is nec…
Magnifica Humanitas Refounds Catholic Social Teaching
The measure of Magnifica Humanitas cannot be taken today, so soon after its release. We won’t know for many years what sort of legacy it might have. But if it does have a legacy, it just may be the salvaging of the Church’s “social doctrine.” “Salvaging” is a strong word, but even one of Catholic social teaching’s most thoughtful and sympathetic interpreters describes it as a mess. Russell Hittinger has noted that the mode of the teaching is not…
While 20,000 pilgrims concluded their fabulous journey to Chartres this Monday, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas, "Magnificent Humanity", his very first encyclical which he wanted to consecrate, as it was announced since the beginning of his pontificate, to artificial intelligence. This encyclical is signed on May 15, the date of the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, this famous encyclical by which his illustrious predecessor Leo XII…
'Magnifica Humanitas' condemns online sexual exploitation as 'Take It Down Act' enforcement begins
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” addressed sexual exploitation as one of the human dignity concerns posed by AI. That issue is one U.S. lawmakers took a first step toward addressing last year with the Take It Down Act, which the Federal Trade Commission began enforcing May 19, just a few days before the encyclical’s publication…
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