Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago on September 14, 1955, is the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, having begun his pontificate on May 8, 2025. He is best known for his first social encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses the challenges artificial intelligence poses to human dignity, labor, and social justice, calling for AI to be disarmed from logics of domination, exclusion, and war. He holds a degree in mathematics and has consistently warned that AI risks making civilization less human by reducing people to data-driven systems rather than persons with inherent dignity.