{"id":238709,"date":"2026-06-29T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:00:23","slug":"pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo&#8217;s AI Encyclical is Not (Just) About AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/\">Pope Leo&#8217;s AI Encyclical is Not (Just) About AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 17:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jesuits.org\">www.jesuits.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical letter titled \u201cMagnifica Humanitas\u201d in May, focusing on the impact of generative artificial intelligence on humanity.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical was officially released during a press conference at the Vatican, attended by Pope Leo XIV, making it unusual for a pontiff to attend.<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Olah from Anthropic and theologian Anna Rowlands were prominent figures at the press conference.<\/li>\n<li>Anna Rowlands delivered a 10-minute address on how the encyclical provides valuable insights into protecting human dignity and the common good in an age dominated by technology.<\/li>\n<li>The conversation with Mike Jordan Laskey also covered the reception of the encyclical, key points in it, and a critique of generative AI&#8217;s impact on human cognition and spirituality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo&#8217;s AI Encyclical is Not (Just) About AI https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/pope-leos-ai-encyclical-is-not-just-about-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-29 17:42:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AI-podcast-twitter.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-238709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238709"}],"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=238709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238711,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238709\/revisions\/238711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}