Dr. Richard Benjamins meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican, 2019 MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS – On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence The article analyses the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, presented as the Pope’s reflection on artificial intelligence, and interprets it as a major ethical and humanist call in response to the impact of AI on society, work, politics, and human dignity. Its central thesis is that technology and artificial intelligence mu