Pope Leo's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, just dropped and it
goes harder on AI, capitalism, and human dignity than anyone expected. Is this just a regulation document? Or is this document a call for Catholics to recover and embrace a deeper understanding of Catholic Social Teaching?
In the first of our 3-part series, Edmund Mitchell sits down with three
Catholic experts working at the front lines of AI to discuss chapter five of the Pope’s new encyclical.
🟠 Expert Panelists
Matthew Harvey Sanders
Founder & CEO of Longbeard, creator of Magisterium AI (deployed in 190+ countries, 50 languages)
Dr. Brett Robinson
Director, Church Communication Ecology Program,McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame
Fr. Jean Gové
Diocesan Coordinator for AI, Archdiocese of Malta; author of Malta's 2026 position paper on the ethical adoption of AI; Holy See representative at the Council of Europe on AI
🟠 We dig into:
— Why the Pope refuses to call AI "just a tool"
— "AI is not neutral" — what that actually means for the average user
— Whether the EU AI Act and the Vatican are using the same words to
mean different things
— Why "becoming more human" is the litmus test Pope Leo keeps coming
back to
— Why Anthropic sent Chris Olah and Amanda Askell to the encyclical's
launch (and what that signals)
— Two practical questions to ask before opening any AI tool
— Digital sobriety, the family, and what the early Christian
communities can teach us about living in a saturated AI environment
— Tower of Babel vs. the New Jerusalem — the recurring frame Pope Leo
uses to read our moment
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