New Delhi, May 26 -- Pope Leo XIV's sweeping letter on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, has drawn an immediate and wide-ranging response from technology investors, AI researchers, US senators and diplomats - with reactions splitting sharply between those who welcome the Vatican's moral intervention and those who question whether the Church understands the forces it is attempting to restrain.

Released on Monday, Magnifica Humanitas - "Magnificent Humanity" - is Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and the Catholic Church's most detailed engagement with artificial intelligence to date. Spanning 245 paragraphs, the document addresses AI-related monopolies, employment displacement, the ethics of autonomous weapons, children's safety ...