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ROME – Pope Leo XIV says the value of human dignity must be maintained as the world faces the changes brought on by the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He also underscored the principles of the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, and solidarity in his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 25.
Stressing the “sublime dignity of all persons,” the pope emphasized the need to ensure that this dignity “is not obscured by the pressure of new ideologies or very powerful interests in today’s world,” such as a logic of efficiency that classifies human beings as a means to an end or as something to be improved.
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In this sense, Leo emphasized the importance of protecting people’s rights, especially women’s, saying, “there is still a long way to go to ensure that the rights of a great many, namely women, are equally and genuinely guaranteed throughout the world.”
“It is a fact that doubly poor are those women who endure situations of exclusion, mistreatment and violence, since they are frequently less able to defend their rights,” he said.
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