Saad Yaqub

Georgetown University PhD candidate who publicly engaged in a Q&A on AI, asking a substantive audience question about the economics driving artificial intelligence and its relationship to the common good.

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