Here's the story at the National Catholic Reporter, May 18:
Pope Leo to present his encyclical on AI alongside Anthropic co-founder
Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first major teaching document on the ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence alongside the co-founder of Anthropic, the AI research company recently thrust into a public clash with the Trump administration over the use of its models in military and surveillance contexts.
The encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"), will center on "the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence" and will be presented May 25 by the pope as well as Curial cardinals and theologians, the Vatican announced Monday.
Leo's decision to take part in the launch of his own encyclical is atypical and highlights his desire to position the Vatican's voice as a leading moral authority on the development and application of AI.
To that end, among those joining him will be Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, the developer of Claude, one of the world's most widely used AI chatbot models....
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A couple of the Italian sites highlight previous encyclicals including Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical on Capital and Labor "Rerum Novarum" which was also presented in May (1891) as well as Pope Saint John Paul II's May 1, 1991 Encyclical "Centesimus Annus" marking the centenary of the earlier Rerum Novarum which the National Catholic Register describes as:
"Centesimus Annus was a call to think about free politics and free economics — democracy and the market — as more than mechanisms. Democracy and the market, the pope insisted, are not machines that can run by themselves. Absent a virtuous citizenry, he cautioned, political and economic freedom would decompose into various forms of self-indulgent license, thereby throwing sand into the gears of democratic self-governance and the free market."
—"Centesimus Annus at 35", May 11, 2026
Some tangentially related previous posts:
In his 2015 Encyclical, Laudato Si Francis gave technology in general the Papal thumbs up.
In 2017 the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences held a symposium on human slavery in the 21st century and one of the speakers, Joseph Mari from the Bank of Montreal spoke on Bitcoin's role in the trade.
But no wider comment on the tech.
Personally, I think they are planning to roll out Vaticoin any day now.
