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The Vatican announces a new AI commission to coordinate the Catholic Church’s response to artificial intelligence, focusing on human dignity and social teaching as Pope Leo XIV prepares an encyclical that emphasizes ethics in AI.
Pope Leo XIV is poised to sign his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, reframing AI as a defining moral and labor issue and urging that technology serve people—protecting workers, creativity, and moral agency. The document, linked to the Rerum Novarum anniversary, would mark an active Vatican role in AI ethics and labor rights, building on existing Vatican AI guidelines and prior warnings about AI's risks. The official announcement is expected May 22.