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Magnifica Humanitas is light on the theology of artificial intelligence, and thick in reiterating Catholic social doctrine. You could remove the concept of artificial intelligence without changing much about the piece, which could have applied to any major technology shift. Heavy in asking for political intervention, and light in political theory — the encyclical protects human dignity by saying intelligence was never the point, but it doesn't explain our role given this shift. Many people believe the emergence of AI, and perhaps even superintelligence, must in some sense fall within divine providence. The encyclical gestures at technology as part of the history of salvation, but does not really engage that claim. If we are in fact on a path toward superintelligence, the encyclical barely faces that possibility. For a papal letter on AI, the omission feels bizarre. The encyclical’s answer to AI is basically: good AI may help, bad AI may hurt, and markets or labs cannot be trusted to sort the difference out. It worries about AI centralizing power in private hands, but says far less about the risk that political remedies could centralize power even more dangerously: through state control, regulatory capture, surveillance, or international bureaucracies insulated from accountability. The encyclical feels defensive. It protects human dignity by saying intelligence was never the point, without really explaining what that means — or explaining what it means for us when intelligence is no longer uniquely human. By the end, I mostly wanted to ask GPT-5.5 what Newman or Aquinas might have said: not for more moral warnings, but for a deeper account of intellect, providence, creation, and the human vocation under artificial intelligence.

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