On June 1 the Vatican released an English-language audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, making the document on safeguarding human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) more accessible.
The audiobook was prepared by the editorial team at Vatican Radio and is divided into seven audio files: an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion. It is available for free on Vatican News platforms.
The audiobook runs about five and a half hours in total, with the introduction and conclusion each lasting under 30 minutes and the five chapters ranging from about 40 minutes to just over an hour.
Magnifica Humanitas was released May 25 after Pope Leo signed it May 15, the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the challenges posed by the Industrial Revolution.
In the roughly 42,000-word encyclical, Pope Leo examines the moral and social questions raised by rapid technological development, urging society to defend human dignity, uphold truth, and protect the dignity of work amid the rise of AI.
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