Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas §92
The Technocratic Paradigm and Digital Power
Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
92 In his Encyclical Laudato Si’ , Pope Francis denounced the growing dominance of a technocratic paradigm in our globalized world: the tendency to let the logic of efficiency, control and profit alone shape personal, social and economic decisions. This makes it clear that technology is not simply a tool. When it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.
Source: Magnifica Humanitas (Vatican.va)