"Pope Leo XIV warned that technological progress must not become an ideology of salvation that reduces human dignity to technical efficiency."
The May 2026 encyclical discusses artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technocratic paradigm and the temptation to treat technological development as a solution to humanity's fundamental problems. The text provides a religious critique of technological salvation narratives, connecting the chapter's Eschaton imagery to a documented contemporary debate about AI and human meaning.
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