Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, will be published on May 25

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Source: OSV News. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, will be published on May 25, addressing artificial intelligence and the protection of human dignity.
The encyclical, the title of which is Latin for “Magnificent Humanity” was signed by the Pope on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s foundational 1891 social encyclical on labour and capital written during the first Industrial Revolution.
In an unprecedented first, Pope Leo XIV will be present in person at the Vatican press conference to mark the publication of the social encyclical, along with a tech founder from one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies.
Christopher Olah, co-founder of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which developed the AI large language model named Claude, will speak on a panel presenting the document at the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25.
Also joining the panel will be Anna Rowlands, a British theologian specialising in Catholic social teaching who helped organise the Synod on Synodality, and Léocadie Lushombo, a professor of theological ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, will also take part in the press conference.

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We were previously told it would be released on May 15, I wonder if this date is going to hold.

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He signed it that day. Apparently the leak was leaking the wrong date.

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That makes sense

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Here is a link to the encyclical: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/ ... nitas.html

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Magnifica Humanitas spends a great deal of time reminding us of who we are and what is at stake in a hyper-technologized society. And it is justified because, somehow, we have forgotten. We are children of God, made in the image and likeness of our Creator. We are infinitely valuable and dignified simply in our being. We have ineradicable rights conferred by God and not by society or its power-brokers. We have gifts that we ought to use, but we ought not be used for our gifts. We should never be exploited for our strength or jettisoned in our weakness. As such, our gnawing hunger for solidarity, subsidiarity, justice, and the common good is warranted and deserves to be satisfied. As the pope notes,

It is important to ensure that this growth in appreciation of human dignity is not obscured by the pressure of new ideologies or certain highly powerful interests in today’s world. Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them.

To be sure, the pope recognizes the many gifts that can come from artificial intelligence, including streamlined goods and services, rapid access to information, and new frontiers in employment and discovery. But he seems to be one of the few mature voices in the public square who dares to “stand athwart history and yell ‘Think!’” if only to ask the necessary moral and ethical questions that undeniably accompany this technologic revolution. What happens, he seems to wonder, if we answer these questions too late? He writes,

The danger of humanity becoming a victim of its own achievements was already clearly recognized by St. Paul VI, who warned that “the most extraordinary scientific progress, the most astounding technical feats and the most amazing economic growth, unless accompanied by authentic moral and social progress, will in the long run go against man.” For this reason, technological progress—valuable in itself—requires careful discernment of the anthropological vision that guides it and the ends it pursues. If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.” In such a scenario, there is a risk that individuals will be evaluated principally according to the outcomes they produce.

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/reb ... humanitas/

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Where can I find this? There are all sorts of publishers offering a "pre-order," but it won't be published until July 27. Two months is a long time to wait to see how much of the media "spin" is true (fairly typical: "He warns of the dangers of AI and says it is time to 'slow down' on developing AI, while making an attack on Trump.").

Yeah, I seriously doubt a Pope would waste valuable space in an encyclical, which he knows is likely to be cited and studied for cenrturies, to attack a politician who will be out of office and retired less than two years later.

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One report from ChurchPop, said that he quoted Tolkein:
https://www.churchpop.com/pope-leo-put- ... humanitas/

The bottom of the article has a link to download the encyclical.

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I already posted a link above : Here is a link to the encyclical: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/ ... nitas.html

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You might have but I have to be honest with you, when you post those long articles from whatever source, TL; DR. It would be better to quote one paragraph and then a link.

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You might have but I have to be honest with you, when you post those long articles from whatever source, TL; DR. It would be better to quote one paragraph and then a link.

Here's a .pdf:
https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/full-t ... encyclical

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You might have but I have to be honest with you, when you post those long articles from whatever source, TL; DR. It would be better to quote one paragraph and then a link.

My apologies. I will avoid that in future.