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Reading Magnifica Humanitas: Ai and the Human Person

Six books that frame the theological, historical, and technical stakes of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on safeguarding the human person amid artificial intelligence.

6 booksMay 25, 2026

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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25vaticannews.va Connecting the Dots From ‘Rerum Novarum’ to ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ncregister.com ‘Magnifica humanitas’: A reader’s guidepillarcatholic.com

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1. The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Explains how AI systems fail and the technical-cultural challenges that the encyclical is responding to, grounding...
Shelf signal: Tech Industry
2. The Human Use of Human Beings
Norbert Wiener, Brian Christian
A classic account of human-machine relations that supplies historical and philosophical context for claims about human...
Shelf signal: Human-Computer Interaction
3. Dominion
Tom Holland
Surveys Christianity's long influence on Western ideas of human worth, helping readers see how Catholic teaching...
Shelf signal: Western European History
4. Theological Anthropology
J. Patout Burns
Provides a systematic theological account of personhood to evaluate the encyclical's critique of transhumanist views of...
5. God, Technology, and the Christian Life
Tony Reinke
Directly addresses Christian responses to technology and offers practical theological perspectives relevant to the...
Shelf signal: Christian Apologetics
6. 2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition
John C. Lennox
Frames popular anxieties and religious perspectives about a technological future, useful for readers confronting the...
Shelf signal: AI & Machine Learning
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