‘Magnifica Humanitas’ – Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical on AI – Coming On 25th May 2026

May 18, 2026 | 0 comments

In unusual collaboration with the founder of the controversial AI firm ‘Anthropic’ Pope Leo XIV will publish his first personal encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitas‘ (Magnificent Humanity) on Monday May 25th 2026.

Expected to warn strongly on  the educative and ethical dangers of AI (computerised artificial intelligence), the encyclical could further ruffle the feathers of the US Trump administration, at war as it is in court with Anthropic over the refusal of the firm to give the administration unlimited control of its AI engine ‘Claude’ for military and surveillance purposes.

Speaking recently of the dangers of over-reliance on all digital technology the pope bewailed “a distorted system, which reduces people to numbers, exacerbating competitiveness and leaving us caught in spirals of anxiety … we are not the sum of what we have, nor a random collection of matter in a silent cosmos. We are a desire, not an algorithm!”

An NCR article on the pope’s choice of Anthropic to help launch this enclyclical quotes Brian Patrick Green, director of technology ethics at Santa Clara University in ‘Silicon Valley’, California:

“Anthropic is the company that has really staked their position as the ethical AI company, saying no to the U.S. government when it comes to lethal autonomous weapon systems … and against mass surveillance of Americans … so they put down those two stakes in the ground and said we’re not going to go past this point.”

For this NCR article on this highly unusual event, click here.

For the full CRUX report of this impending event, click here.

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ACI’s Campaign for Lumen Gentium 37

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