Pope Leo XIV’s address at the Vatican launch of Magnifica humanitas places artificial intelligence within the tradition of Catholic social teaching. Like Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum in 1891, it asks how a great technological transformation can be judged by the dignity of the human person rather than by power, profit, or efficiency alone.
A good life may be measured by the old rule of the picnic spot: leave the place better than you found it. If the individual mind ends with the living organism, then dignity lies not in survival after death, but in the care, truth, restraint, and generosity we leave behind.