Edward Luce

Edward Luce is a Washington-based Financial Times columnist and U.S. national editor/commentator known for reporting and analysis on U.S. politics, foreign policy, political economy, and global affairs. He previously served as the FT’s Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief, and is the author of books including The Retreat of Western Liberalism and Zbig.

Pope Leo XIV Frames AI Governance as a Test of Human Dignity

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, argues that artificial intelligence should be judged first by its effects on human dignity, agency and power, not by its technical promise. In a panel moderated by Vivian Schiller, Vilas Dhar, Kim Daniels and Josh Good read the document as an effort to bring Catholic social teaching into AI debates over work, education, autonomous weapons, institutional accountability and the moral limits of markets and technology.

The Aspen InstituteJun 1, 202618 min read