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As artificial intelligence reshapes work, family life, education, warfare, public communication, and the nature of power itself, the first American pope brings the full resources of Scripture, Church history, and Catholic social teaching to bear on the defining technological question of our age: what does it mean to remain fully human?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Ignatius Press edition presents the encyclical in the clean, classic format readers expect from Ignatius, making it accessible to Catholics, Christians, ethicists, and anyone seriously concerned with the human future. Leo XIV neither dismisses the remarkable potential of artificial intelligence nor accepts it uncritically. 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