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Anthropic follows Pope’s AI encyclical with warning
Two weeks after Pope Leo XIV published an encyclical warning artificial intelligence companies against constructing “a new Tower of Babel”, the multibillion-dollar AI company Anthropic is calling for a global pause or slowdown in development. Source: EWTN News.
Pope’s encyclical ’offers the wisdom tech companies are searching for’
Magnifica Humanitas has opened the doors for deeper conversations between the Church and the tech industry regarding “how AI is going to affect humanity”, according to priest and former Silicon Valley executive Fr Brendan McGuire. Source: National Catholic Register.
Encyclical available as audiobook in English
The English editorial team of Vatican Radio and Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas”. Source: Vatican News.
Vatican releases kit to help unpack Magnifica Humanitas
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has released a pastoral kit on Magnifica Humanitas, aiming to make Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical more easily understood. Source: EWTN News.
Silicon Valley priest welcomes engagement with AI sector
A priest serving in Silicon Valley said the Vatican’s efforts to build bridges with major tech giants, while slow going, are not being ignored and sees this engagement as key to the future of the artificial intelligence industry. Source: Crux.
Encyclical offers profound reflection on dignity: CSSA
Catholic Social Services Australia says Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a “profound” reflection on the dignity of the human person amid the rapid advances of technology.
Pope urges ‘responsible care for the human family’ in the face of AI
Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, underlines the need to safeguard human dignity as it is “threatened by new forms of dehumanisation”. Source: OSV News.
Bishops encourage study of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has encouraged the faithful to read Magnifica Humanitas and consider ways in which Pope Leo’s encyclical can be applied locally. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
‘A wound in Christian memory’: Pope delivers slavery apology
Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology yesterday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimising slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory”. Source: NCR Online.