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AI Policy From Rome
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The federal government has been trying to write an AI oversight framework for three years, and not much works. The Biden executive order was rescinded, the Trump successor order was pulled hours before signing last Thursday, and state legislatures are passing massive volumes of bills with no federal preemption to coordinate them. Federal agencies are deploying agentic AI at scale with governance frameworks that lag the deployment curve by 12 to 18 months. The result is an industry, a regulator, and a public that all want the same thing — clarity on how AI should be built, deployed, and overseen — without a working framework anyone has agreed on.
Last Sunday, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical. The document is the most serious attempt in years to give all three audiences a starting framework. It is grounded in Catholic moral tradition but written in policy language. The argument is structured, the operational asks are concrete, and the four principles it proposes, which I discuss in detail below, are usable by anyone. This week's deep dive walks through the framework and what it gives the industry to work with.
What's Inside
AI Policy, Papal Edition: the four principles Magnifica Humanitas offers as a working framework
Where real gaps are filled: how the encyclical does what existing frameworks haven't
How tech companies, governments, and the public can use it
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