Pope harshly criticizes Musk and Peter Thiel, warns against making humans subservient to machines with Anthropic founder According to Beating monitoring, in 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued the landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum in response to the Industrial Revolution. 135 years later, Pope Leo XIV officially issued his first encyclical during his tenure, "Magnifica Humanitas". The decree aims to build a new moral and social framework for the era of artificial intelligence. The Pope warns that the AI revolution driven by the idol worship of profit is threatening human dignity and declares a ban on delegating deadly military decisions to automated algorithm systems. The core focus of the encyclical is directly on Silicon Valley monopolies and new forms of digital enslavement. The Pope harshly criticized the superhuman vision advocated by Silicon Valley leaders such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and condemned the elitist tendency to judge specific groups of people as "inefficient, useless, and redundant" in AI development. The Pope pointed out that digital giants are using large-scale data collection to construct a "visibility architecture" to manipulate the public, downgrade individuals to exploitative digital portraits, and even give rise to "new forms of slavery and digital colonization" in the lower levels of the supply chain, such as rare earth mining. The Pope not only called for the promotion of "AI de weaponization" to eliminate vicious competition, but also issued a rare public apology for the Catholic Church's failure to condemn the crime of slavery in its history. At the encyclical release ceremony, the Vatican broke tradition by inviting Christopher Ora, co-founder of the artificial intelligence unicorn Anthropic, to stand with the Pope, aiming to impose moral constraints directly on Silicon Valley model makers. The Pope emphasized that algorithms cannot give any moral justification to war, and in key decisions such as military, credit assessment, and public assistance, it is necessary to ensure transparency in the process and allow for public appeal. At the same time, the Pope reiterated that the traditional Catholic theory of "just war" is outdated in modern conflicts. The Vatican has explicitly rejected the statement made by US Vice President Vance and other politicians using the theory of just war to defend the US bombing operation in Iran. The Pope also calls for a profound self purification within the Catholic Church, clearing the internal structures that lead to abuse and opacity on the levels of power, sexuality, and conscience. [Original link]