Pope Leo XIV Issues First AI Encyclical, Warns of Digital Slavery

Pope Leo XIV has published his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas', warning that AI risks creating new forms of global human subjugation and calling for government regulation of technology companies, while simultaneously announcing a formal cooperation between the Catholic Church and AI firm Anthropic. The alignment of the world's largest Christian institution with a major AI corporation signals the growing fusion of religious authority and technocratic power — a convergence that biblical prophecy warns will characterise the final world system. This echoes Revelation 13's vision of a global structure that controls commerce and human dignity through centralised power, and 2 Thessalonians 2's warning of a great deception operating through institutions of apparent moral authority.