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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/...

simonwillison.netA few notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AIDropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting …

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ctrlaudio
@mrcdrt.bsky.social

Thank you for this. One thing I don’t understand, if the pope articulates for an AI and data that belongs to all instead of a selected few, what is the relationship with Anthropic, why were they there?

Joe Fabisevich
@mergesort.me

Oh strange, it must be a content blocker because it works fine when I load it up in a browser that isn't Safari. Sorry for the false positive!