{"id":219656,"date":"2026-05-25T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-is-a-42000-word-letter-on-ai-heres-what-it-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:40:20","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-is-a-42000-word-letter-on-ai-heres-what-it-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-is-a-42000-word-letter-on-ai-heres-what-it-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV &#8216;s first encyclical is a 42,000-word letter on AI. Here&#8217;s what it says."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-vatican-city-anthropic\/507-bcb96118-5ff3-41e8-9efe-563b5882a709\">Pope Leo XIV &#8216;s first encyclical is a 42,000-word letter on AI. Here&#8217;s what it says.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-vatican-city-anthropic\/507-bcb96118-5ff3-41e8-9efe-563b5882a709\">https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-vatican-city-anthropic\/507-bcb96118-5ff3-41e8-9efe-563b5882a709<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 07:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.10tv.com\">www.10tv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical as pontiff in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, a 42,000-word letter on artificial intelligence titled &#8220;Magnifica humanitas,&#8221; which emphasizes the ethical responsibility of AI developers to safeguard humanity.<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican emphasized the papal encyclical as a letter from the pope to church leaders to offer his interpretation of Catholic doctrine, marking Leo XIV&#8217;s inaugural encyclical since he began his papacy in May 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Among the notable attendees of the encyclical presentation was Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, which focuses on developing AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>The document includes a direct plea to AI developers to consider the ethical and spiritual implications of their technology, highlighting that every design choice reflects a vision of humanity.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, the pope\u2019s encyclical reiterates his earlier concerns expressed in February and at a recent Vatican conference, warning against the spiritual and relational deficiencies of AI and urging the importance of human intelligence and interaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV &#8216;s first encyclical is a 42,000-word letter on AI. Here&#8217;s what it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.tegna-media.com\/assets\/CCT\/images\/bf871843-9a8a-412a-988e-ea450f0362ee\/20260525T110229\/bf871843-9a8a-412a-988e-ea450f0362ee_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219658,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219656\/revisions\/219658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}