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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, declares artificial intelligence ethics a religious imperative for the Catholic Church's 1.4 billion members. The 43,000-word document calls for the "disarmament" of AI, condemns lethal autonomous weapons, and challenges transhumanism — while its release alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah raises questions about the Vatican's entanglement with the industry it seeks to regulate.