Papal Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: AI Regulation and Geopolitical Tensions (legrandcontinent.eu)

• Pope Leo XIV issues encyclical on digital technologies and AI.
• Criticism of data reductionism, transhumanism, and AI arms race.
• Demand for independent AI oversight and disarming of AI.
• Warning against augmented warfare and multilateral crisis.
• First papal citation of a fantasy character (Gandalf) in a teaching document.

"Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, addressing challenges of digital technologies and AI. The Pope criticizes reducing humans to data, rejects transhumanism, and calls for strict AI controls by independent oversight bodies. He advocates for 'disarming AI' and warns against 'disordered and conflictual multipolarism' and 'augmented war' driven by AI. The encyclical also features the first citation of a fantasy character (Gandalf) in a papal teaching document."