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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Daily, Npr, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Pope Leo XIV has published his first major document. The encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” focuses on AI and what the pope calls the “distorting effects of technological power.”

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This is Boston. This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

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Pope Leo XIV has published his first major theological document.

1:22.7

It's an encyclical called Magnifica Humanitas, Latin for Magnificent Humanity.

1:30.5

Its subtitle is On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.

1:38.7

135 years ago, my vulnerable predecessor, Leo X, observed the situation of factory workers, their families,

1:48.4

uprooted, and new forms of poverty generated by rapid industrial transformation.

1:55.8

He understood that the church could not remain distant.

2:00.8

Today, we find ourselves facing a transformation of similar magnitude, with perhaps even greater

2:07.5

consequences.

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