The Pope, AI, and the WTO
The main thesis of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence") is that artificial intelligence (AI) must serve humanity, rather than humanity adapting itself to AI without reservation. Human dignity, moral responsibility, work, truth, and peace must remain at the center of technological development. There was already an echo of Pope Leo's message to be found in what many would think a most unexpected place: the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) written in another time, in 1948 for goods and in 1995…
The main thesis of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence") is that artificial intelligence (AI) must serve humanity, rather than humanity adapting itself to AI without reservation. Human dignity, moral responsibility, work, truth, and peace must remain at the center of technological development.…
The main thesis of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence") is that artificial intelligence (AI) must serve humanity, rather than humanity adapting itself to AI without reservation. Human dignity, moral responsibility, work, truth, and peace must remain at the center of technological development. There was already an echo of Pope Leo's message to be found in what many would think a most unexpected place: the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) written…