Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical letter, "Magnifica Humanitas", at the Vatican on 25 May, warning about the moral and social risks associated with the rise of artificial intelligence. The encyclical cautions that technological advancement without corresponding ethical progress risks increasing technical capabilities without contributing to human growth. These moral concerns coincide with ongoing disputes over consent between content creators and artificial intelligence companies that scrape original works to train their systems. Although calls for ethical guardrails date back to Isaac Asimov’s 1942 laws of robotics, the technology industry has largely absorbed concepts such as "responsible AI" and "trustworthy AI" into corporate language.

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Background: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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