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Last update: 6 hours agoVatican AI Push Goes Public: Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is set for May 25, with the Vatican confirming the pope will personally appear at the press event alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah—a rare, direct handshake between the Holy See and a frontier AI lab. Internal Governance: Ahead of the text, the Vatican has created an AI commission and working bodies to coordinate ethics, policy, and how AI is used inside the Church. Human Dignity vs. Automation: The pope’s message keeps circling back to one line: AI must not replace human thinking, conscience, or the human encounter. Global Ripples: In the U.S., VP JD Vance says the encyclical will “have influence,” while elsewhere the week also showed the cultural stakes—Indonesia’s digital Catholic apologists reshaping online faith, and a Philippine “Toboso” case reigniting outrage over dehumanizing language online.
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