Humanity Unfolding: Where I Differ with Pope Leo XIV on the Human Person and AI

Ilia Delio writes about Pope Leo’s encyclical, Magnifica humanitas:

“Magnifica humanitas—”magnificent humanity”—is at heart an invitation: it asks a distracted, accelerating civilization to consider what it is before deciding what it wants to become.

Read on its own terms, the encyclical is a powerful moral guide, precisely because it refuses to be merely reactive. Leo delivers no jeremiad. He acknowledges that AI can heal, connect, and educate even as it can divide, exclude, and generate new injustice.

The tool, he insists, takes on the character of those who devise, finance, and use it—locating responsibility in human hands rather than in a mystified technology that supposedly acts on its own.”

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https://open.substack.com/pub/iliadelio/p/humanity-unfolding-where-i-differ?r=d88cq&utm_medium=ios