Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIV on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence (15 May 2026)
*A plain-language translation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, rendered for a reader who is secular and technical rather than Catholic, and who may have little or no familiarity with the Bible or Christian thought. I have tried to preserve the meaning sentence by sentence, and to keep every claim the original makes β including its theological ones. Where the original reaches for the language of the Church, I have kept the claim and put it in plainer words, leaving its convictions standing as the author's stated convictions, so that you can follow the argument whether or not you share the belief. Biblical stories, figures, and images are briefly explained the first time they appear. The original's scholarly citation footnotes (references to earlier Church documents) have been dropped; named authors and works are folded into the text. The paragraph numbers are preserved