News Summary

• Pope Leo released Magnifca Humanitas, his much-anticipated first encyclical as pontiff.
• In it, he takes aim straight at artificial intelligence, one of the most feared and disruptive forces in our world today.
• Pope Leo also calls out the idolatry of profit and “structural sins’ within capitalism and markets.
• He takes this so far as to link AI to the legacy of slavery and to apologize for the Church’s historic role in sanctioning the slave trade.