AI did not impose itself by force. It made itself indispensable through ease. And we let it in, without really weighing what we were giving up in return.
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas. An encyclical on AI. Yes, you read that right. And this text says, with a clarity many tech reports lack, what we still refuse to face: human dignity eroded by algorithms, thinking that sheds its effort, power concentrating in the hands of those who code while everyone else bears the consequences.
I read this text as a practitioner, not as a believer. And what I found in it matches exactly what I observe every day: we are no longer just automating tasks. We are delegating our way of thinking.
Between Babel and Jerusalem, the encyclical asks a simple, almost uncomfortable question: which building site are we working on, here and now, with the tools we use every day? What are we really building? And for whom?
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: Building the human in the age of machines
