AI didn’t force its way in. It made itself indispensable through convenience. And we let it in, without really measuring what we were giving up in return.
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas. An encyclical about AI. Yes, you read that right. And this text says, with a clarity that most tech reports lack, what we still refuse to face: human dignity eroded by algorithms, thought that offloads its own effort, power concentrating in the hands of those who code while everyone else just absorbs the consequences.
I read this text as a practitioner, not a believer. And what I found in it mirrors exactly what I observe every day: we are no longer just automating tasks. We are delegating the way we think.
Between Babel and Jerusalem, the encyclical asks a simple, almost uncomfortable question: which construction site are we part of, right now, with the tools we use every single day? What are we actually building? And for whom?
