Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: Vatican Defines Social Doctrine for the AI Age (legrandcontinent.eu)

• Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas signed on May 15, 2026
• Five doctrinal innovations: AI not neutral, new subsidiarity, data as common good, AI disarmament, digital colonialism
• Calls for AI fasting in education and ban on autonomous lethal decisions

"Pope Leo XIV signed the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on May 15, 2026, outlining a comprehensive Catholic social teaching for the age of artificial intelligence. The document rejects AI neutrality, calls for disarmament of autonomous weapons, and criticizes digital colonialism. It introduces five doctrinal innovations, including redefinition of subsidiarity and recognition of data as common goods. The author, a Jesuit who also advised Francis, interprets the encyclical as a break and continuity with Rerum Novarum."