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Magnifica humanitas

Pope Leo: AI needs to be ‘disarmed’

Leo made an impassioned call to “disarm” AI as he presented his first encyclical letter on Monday.

Edgar Beltrán
May 25, 2026
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Pope Leo made an impassioned call to “disarm” AI and to free it “from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death” as he presented his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas on May 25.

Pope Leo presents the encyclical in the Vatican
Pope Leo presents Magnifica humanitas on May 25. Credit: Vatican media.

The document, signed on May 15, the anniversary of Leo XIII’s Rerum nov…

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