🏛️ Architecture & Design Jun 1, 2026 · Rachel Paese

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on the AI conversation

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Pope Leo XIV weighed in on the AI conversation
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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, was signed on May 15, 2026 — the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum — and formally released on May 25. 



It weighs in at 42,300 words, and I confess I haven’t read it in its entirety yet. But a surprising number of people have — some turning it into an unboxing-style commentary event on social media, a throwback to simple

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