Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” places human dignity at the centre of the AI age and calls the Church to guide technology with ethics and justice.

On May 25, ten days after Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, he made it public, prompting the Church to become the first major institution to offer ethical guidance for the AI era and underscoring the primacy of the human person.

Just a day after signing the encyclical, Leo, through a Rescriptum ex Audientia, established an interdicastery Commission on Artificial Intelligence, bringing together seven Vatican institutions under rotating coordination.

Taken together, the two acts constitute the most significant institutional response to AI by a major religious body anywhere in the world—and perhaps the clearest signal yet that the Vatican intends to do more than issue clever warnings from the margins of the debate.
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