Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Deepens Vatican–Big Tech Alliance on AI

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica humanitas' has formalized a decade-long dialogue between the Catholic Church and Silicon Valley's most powerful AI companies, including Anthropic, whose co-founder joined the Pope at the encyclical's launch. This unprecedented alliance between global religious and technological power blocs signals the consolidation of a singular moral and governance voice over transformative AI systems that will shape all of human society. Scripture warns of a coming global system where centralized authority — spiritual and economic — controls the lives of all people, a pattern increasingly visible in partnerships between world religion and tech giants (Revelation 13:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).