Magnifica Humanitas

A papal encyclical on human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence, the first encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIV. Drawing on Catholic social teaching, it holds that AI must serve human dignity and the common good; warns that the apparent objectivity of automated systems can conceal the assumptions of their designers and training data; criticizes simulated empathy and friendship that may mislead vulnerable users; and argues that automated decision-makingautomated decision-making, n.: When a computer system, rather than a person, makes or effectively makes a decision about someone — such as approving credit, screening job applicants or flagging possible welfare fraud. about jobs, credit and public services lacks compassion and mercy. It calls for clearly assigned human responsibility for AI decisions, attention to AI's energy and water use, broad participation to counter concentration of powerconcentration of power, n.: The worry that AI will put enormous economic, political or military power in the hands of a few companies, governments or individuals, beyond the reach of ordinary checks and balances., and treatment of data as a shared good rather than a commodity. It describes current AI systems as 'cultivated' rather than built, their inner workings largely unknown.

The ethics board quoted Magnifica Humanitas on who must answer for an automated denial of credit.