Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is clear-eyed about the limits of techno-utopianism. But its vision of technology directed toward human flourishing needs to be extended to include the interests of every sentient being, human and nonhuman, biological or—possibly—artificial.
MELBOURNE—Pope Leo XIV deserves great credit for making AI the topic of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. The world is dangerously unprepared for the social and economic transformation that AI is bringing. Leo’s call for more thought and action about AI deserves to be heard by policymakers and publics, religious or secular, everywhere.