Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV,
Peace in Christ.
On the occasion of Your Holiness’s promulgation, on May 25, 2026, of
your first encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica
Humanitas: On Safeguarding Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial
Intelligence, the Intersubjective Symbiosism Foundation wishes to
extend to the Vatican our deepest respect and sincere greetings,
together with a profound sense of responsibility toward the future of
civilization.
First and foremost, we must solemnly express our high appreciation
for this encyclical.
At a historical moment marked by technological acceleration,
algorithmic expansion, and the growing objectification of human
personhood, Your Holiness has demonstrated remarkable prophetic
insight in affirming that the irreplaceable value of the human person
lies not in efficiency, speed, or computational power, but precisely
in human finitude, vulnerability, and the capacity to bear
consequences.
This insight is of immense importance.
For at a time when many increasingly mistake “intelligence” for
wisdom, “computation” for personhood, and “data” for life itself,
Magnifica Humanitas reminds the world that AI may simulate language,
but it cannot truly suffer; it may generate emotion, but it cannot
genuinely love; it may perform limitless calculations, but it cannot
bear moral responsibility for its own actions.
In this sense, the significance of Magnifica Humanitas for the AI age
is comparable to that of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum for the age
of the Industrial Revolution 135 years ago.
Then, Rerum Novarum confronted the crisis of the mechanization of
labor. Today, Magnifica Humanitas confronts the crisis of the
algorithmization of human subjectivity.
Yet precisely because this encyclical has touched one of the deepest
questions of our civilization, we feel compelled—with theological
reverence and trembling—to raise several further questions.
For the problem of AI may no longer be merely a problem of AI itself.
It is rapidly becoming a broader civilizational question concerning
the interactive coupling of LIFE, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and
TRUST.
I. The Absence of an Eschatological Horizon: From
Technological Warning to the Vision of the New Jerusalem
Magnifica Humanitas offers profound warnings concerning the risks of
AI-driven alienation and the reduction of human beings to instruments
within algorithmic society.
Such warnings are undoubtedly important.
Yet compared with Rerum Novarum, Magnifica Humanitas still appears,
in some respects, incomplete.
For the greatness of Rerum Novarum lay not merely in its critique of
the sufferings of industrial society, but in its proposal of a
historically creative “Third Way”:
it strongly opposed the cold logic of laissez-faire capitalism that
reduced labor into mere commodity, while also firmly rejecting
socialism’s abolition of private property and its promotion of class
struggle.
One may even say that the spirit of this “Third Way” faintly
anticipated today’s secular ideology of “Political Correctness,”
in which anti-discrimination itself may generate new forms of reverse
discrimination—where human beings are increasingly fragmented into
identity labels, algorithmic categories, and compliance parameters,
while universal personhood itself becomes dissolved.
By contrast, although Magnifica Humanitas perceptively recognizes the
erosion of human dignity caused by AI, it remains primarily at the
level of warning against already existing or foreseeable risks of the
AI revolution, without yet articulating a new “Third Way” for the
AI age.
It points to danger, but has not yet fully unfolded a civilizational
vision of the “New Heaven and New Earth” and the “New Jerusalem.”
At this point, I must express a conviction and feeling that has
remained with me for decades:
the Chinese rendering of the Holy Bible should perhaps not merely be
understood as “Holy Scripture,” but more profoundly as “Holy
Covenant.”
For the heart of the Holy Bible has never been merely a static, one
directional, absolute “canon.”
In the Chinese-speaking world, the translation “Holy Scripture”
certainly possesses historical significance. Yet if we return to the
Hebrew tradition and the history of salvation itself, “Holy
Covenant” may reveal its deeper essence more fully.
For the core of the Holy Bible is not merely the proclamation of
doctrine, but the dynamic history of God and humanity entering into
covenant, breaking covenant, renewing covenant, and fulfilling
covenant.
From the Covenant of Law at Sinai, to the Covenant of the Gospel in
which Christ entered human suffering through the Incarnation, and
finally to the eschatological promise in Revelation that “the
dwelling place of God is with humanity,” the essence has never been
a cold institutional order, but relational indwelling and the Wisdom
of Love—Amorsophia.
Thus, the deepest question of the AI age may not ultimately be
whether machines will surpass human beings, but whether human beings
still remain willing to recognize one another as Subjects rather than
reducing one another into Resources and Data Objects.
II. The Silence Regarding a New “Third Way”: The
Structural Crisis of LIFE–AI–TRUST
The greatness of Rerum Novarum lay in the fact that it did not merely
criticize social problems, but proposed an institutional response
centered on the dignity of personhood between capitalism and
socialism.
Today, however, the AI revolution has pushed this structural crisis
to an entirely new level.
The contemporary world is simultaneously witnessing the rise of two
new forms of “Digital Leviathan” — a backlash of TRUST against
LIFE:
on the one hand, cyber-feudalism represented by data capital,
algorithmic platforms, and Silicon Valley technological oligarchies;
on the other hand, digital bureaucratism characterized by
surveillance systems, algorithmic governance, and panoptic social
management.
Under the combined force of these two tendencies, human beings
increasingly cease to exist as subjects, and are gradually reduced
into:
predictable data,
optimizable behavior,
callable traffic,
and replaceable human modules.
Thus, declining birth rates, collapsing marriages, social withdrawal
among the young, and the erosion of meaning are not merely economic
problems. They represent a silent existential circuit-breaker
triggered by the double objectification of LIFE under “AI + power
structures.”
Therefore, we believe that the question of AI cannot be discussed
apart from the interactive coupling of LIFE, AI, and TRUST.
For AI is never an isolated technology.
Behind algorithms lies power.
Behind data lies organization.
Behind platforms lies institutional structure.
All three involve the possibility of TRUST turning against LIFE under
AI amplification.
And for this reason, although Magnifica Humanitas possesses
considerable moral force, it has not yet truly proposed a new “Third
Way” for the AI age.
For example:
How can digital personhood avoid permanent enclosure by platforms?
How can algorithmic sovereignty avoid complete capture by states and
capital?
How can workers retain meaningful agency in the AI era?
How can data avoid becoming a new form of enclosure movement?
How can technology once again serve the wholeness of life rather than
reshape humanity in its own image?
These are no longer merely ethical questions. They are questions of
civilizational structure.
III. The Trial of Moral Sovereignty: Is the Church Yielding
Ground to New Digital Powers?
Finally, with the utmost respect and caution, we wish to raise a
question concerning the position of the Church itself.
The Vatican’s invitation of Christopher Olah, co-founder of the AI
unicorn company Anthropic, as a principal speaker was clearly
intended to promote ethical dialogue concerning AI.
Such openness is itself worthy of respect.
Yet if the Church becomes excessively dependent upon ethical
vocabularies and “AI safety frameworks” provided by particular
technological powers during the formation of digital civilization, a
deeper concern inevitably arises:
might the Church gradually and unintentionally surrender part of its
prophetic moral authority to new structures of digital capital?
Even companies most committed to “AI safety” and “alignment”
remain embedded within the realities of capital, geopolitical
competition, and industrial power.
Thus, it would be unwise for the Vatican to appear structurally
aligned with one technological faction against another within Silicon
Valley.
For the true greatness of the Church lies precisely in its refusal to
become dependent upon any empire, any capital system, or any worldly
power.
From Rerum Novarum until today, the greatness of Catholic social
teaching has never rested in becoming merely a consultant for
technological governance, but in remaining a transcendent witness for
suffering life itself.
If the Church ultimately limits itself to:
“warning about AI risks,”
“advocating ethical regulation,”
or “calling for corporate self-discipline,”
without truly entering the lived suffering of workers, youth, and
marginalized people whose subjectivity is increasingly stripped away
by algorithmic systems,
then the Church may gradually descend from being a prophetic witness
into becoming merely a moral ornament of digital civilization.
IV. Conclusion: The Real Question of the AI Age Is Whether
Human Beings Still Recognize One Another as Human
From the Industrial Revolution to the AI Revolution, humanity has
continuously faced the same question:
Is the human person an end,
or merely a tool?
A Subject,
or merely a Resource?
A being to be recognized,
or merely data to be utilized?
We believe that what deserves the greatest vigilance is not AI alone,
but humanity’s growing inability to recognize one another as
subjects.
If technology merely enables human beings to exploit one another more
efficiently, then no matter how advanced AI becomes, civilization
will merely repeat the fate of Babel in a new algorithmic language.
More dangerous still is the fact that AI amplifies not merely
technical capability, but the latent tendency toward alienation
within every organizational form of TRUST.
Whether states, corporations, platforms, or even religious
institutions themselves, all organizational forms must remain
vigilant against alienation. Once reverence for LIFE is lost, AI
amplification may gradually drive them toward renewed forms of human
objectification.
Humanity does not truly need an ever more powerful “Digital
Leviathan.”
For AI is never isolated technology. It is always embedded within
organizational structures and continuously amplifies their
operational logic.
When TRUST departs from LIFE, organization begins to devour life.
When technology departs from symbiosis, intelligence risks becoming
domination.
It is precisely under these conditions that humanity may need to
begin exploring a new “technology–ethics–way of life”
infrastructure:
following the Internet (information connectivity) and the Internet of
Things (perceptual connectivity), humanity may need to explore an AM
(Amorsophia MindsField/Network) framework centered upon “mind
interaction” and the Wisdom of Love, capable of responding to the
intensifying structural tensions among LIFE, AI, and TRUST.
Such a framework would not seek to create another Digital Leviathan,
but rather to prevent machines from replacing humanity and
organizations from turning against LIFE — enabling intelligence once
again to bear life, and organizations once again to serve life.
May the Church, in this decisive age,
not only become a vigilant witness against technological risk,
but also an advocate for truly “new things,”
and above all, a witness to the hope of the New Jerusalem in the
glory of God.
May LIFE, AI, and TRUST
return to a covenant of symbiosis
rather than domination.
Respectfully submitted,
in hope and truth.
Amen.
Intersubjective Symbiosism Foundation
致良十四世教宗
To His Holiness Pope Leo XIV
Vancouver
Morning of May 27, 2026
——论生命、人工智能与组织信托的交互主体共生
— On the Intersubjective Symbiosism of LIFE, Artificial
Intelligence, and TRUST
尊敬的良十四世教宗（Pope Leo XIV）：
主内平安。
值此您于2026年5月25日正式颁布教宗任内首份人工智能通谕《壮丽的
人性：论人工智能时代对人性尊严的守护》（Magnifica Humanitas）之际，交
互主体共生基金会（Intersubjective Symbiosism Foundation）怀着深切敬意
与时代责任感，谨向梵蒂冈致以诚挚问候。
首先，我们必须郑重表达对这份通谕的高度肯定。
在全球技术狂飙、算法扩张、生命位格不断遭受客体化的历史背景下，您
以极大的先知性敏锐指出：人类真正不可替代的价值，并不在于效率、速度或
计算能力，而恰恰在于人的有限性（Finitude）、脆弱性（Vulnerability）以
及承担后果的能力（Capacity to Bear Consequences）。
这一洞见极其重要。
因为在越来越多的人试图将“智能”误认为“智慧”、将“计算”误认为
“人格”、将“数据”误认为“生命”的今天，《壮丽的人性》重新提醒世
界：AI 可以模拟语言，却无法真正承担苦难；可以生成情感，却无法真正进入
爱；可以进行无限统计，却无法为自身行为承担真正的道德后果。
从这个意义上说，《壮丽的人性》之于AI时代的重要性，正如135年前良
十三世教宗（Pope Leo XIII）的《新事》（Rerum Novarum）之于工业革命时
代。
彼时，《新事》面对的是“劳动者被机器化”的危机；今日，《壮丽的人
性》面对的，则是“人类主体性被算法化”的危机。
然而，也正因为这份通谕已经触及文明深处最关键的问题，我们怀着一种
神学性的敬畏与战栗，不得不进一步提出几项更深层的叩问。
因为AI问题，或许已经不仅仅是“AI的问题”。
它正在演变为一个关于生命（LIFE）、人工智能（AI）与组织信托
（TRUST）如何交互耦合的整体文明问题。
一、终末论视界的缺席：从“技术警示”到“新耶路撒冷”的启示
《壮丽的人性》极其深刻地揭示了AI可能带来的异化风险，对算法社会中
人的工具化、情感模拟与道德空洞化提出了重要警告。
这种警示当然重要。
但与良十三世《新事》相比，《壮丽的人性》仍显得美中不足。
因为《新事》之所以伟大，并不仅仅在于它批判了工业革命时代的苦难，
更在于它提出了一条具有历史创造性的“第三条道路（The Third Way）”：
既强烈反对自由放任资本主义（Laissez-faire Capitalism）将劳动者彻
底商品化的冷酷逻辑，也坚决谴责社会主义（Socialism）消灭私有制、鼓吹阶
级斗争的激进倾向。
甚至可以说，这种“第三条道路”的精神，还隐约预见了今天世俗“政治正
确（Political Correctness）”意识形态在“反歧视”过程中不断衍生出的某
种“逆向歧视（Reverse Discrimination）”现象——当人越来越被拆解为身份
标签、算法分类与合规参数时，真正具有普遍性的“人格主体（Personhood）”
反而再次遭到消解。
相比之下，《壮丽的人性》虽然敏锐地意识到AI对人性尊严的侵蚀，却更
多仍停留于对“AI 革命”中已经出现或可能出现之风险与异化现象的描述与警
示，而尚未进一步提出AI时代新的“第三条道路”。
它指出了危险，却尚未真正展开一种关于“新天新地”与“新耶路撒冷
城”的文明启示。
这里，我必须把一个萦绕在我心里几十年的感觉和信念说出来，这就是
《Holy Bible》的中文翻译，不应当只是《圣经》，更贴切更入心的翻译应当
是《圣约》。
因为，《Holy Bible》的核心，从来不只是某种静态、单向、非此即彼的
“经”。在中文世界，《Holy Bible》长期被译作《圣经》，这一翻译当然有
其历史贡献；但若回到希伯来传统与救赎史本身，“圣约（Holy Covenant）”
或许更能揭示其深层精神。
因为，《Holy Bible》的核心，不只是抽象教义（Doctrine）的宣示，更
是一部“神与人立约、破约、守约、续约”的动态历史。
从西奈山的律法之约（Covenant of Law），到耶稣以肉身入局、进入苦难
的福音之约（Covenant of Gospel），再到《启示录》中“神的帐幕在人间”的
终末应许，其核心始终不是冰冷的制度，而是一种关系性的共在（Relational
Indwelling）与爱的智慧（Amorsophia）。
也正因如此，AI时代真正的问题，或许从来不只是“机器是否会超越
人”，而是：
人在技术扩张中，是否仍愿彼此承认为主体（Subject），而不是彼此降格
为资源（Resource）与数据对象（Data Object）。
二、AI时代“新道路”的失语：LIFE–AI–TRUST 的结构性危机
1891 年，《新事》之所以能够成为划时代的社会通谕，并不仅仅因为它批
判问题，而是因为它在资本与社会主义之间，提出了一种关于“人格主体性”
的制度性回应。
然而今天，AI革命已经将这种结构性危机推向新的高度。
当代世界，正在同时出现两种新的“数字利维坦”（TRUST反噬）：
一方面，是以数据资本、算法平台与硅谷科技寡头为代表的“赛博封建主
义（Cyber-Feudalism）”；
另一方面，则是以数字监控、算法治理与全景式社会管理为特征的“数字
官僚主义（Digital Bureaucratism）”。
在这两种力量共同作用下，人越来越不再作为主体存在，而是逐渐被降格
为：
可预测的数据、
可优化的行为、
可调用的流量、
可替换的人力模块。
于是，低生育率、婚姻解体、青年“躺平”、意义感崩塌，并不仅仅是经
济问题，而是生命（LIFE）对“AI + 权力组织”双重客体化的一种消极熔断。
因此，我们认为：
AI 问题不能脱离生命（LIFE）、人工智能（AI）与组织信托（TRUST）三
者的交互耦合结构而单独讨论。
因为AI从来不是孤立存在的技术。
算法背后，始终存在权力；
数据背后，始终存在组织；
平台背后，始终存在制度。
这三者，都可能涉及TRUST在AI加持下对LIFE反噬，也正因如此，《壮
丽的人性》虽然极富道义力量，却尚未真正提出AI时代的“新道路”。
例如：
如何避免人的数字人格被平台永久占有？
如何避免算法主权完全归属于资本与国家？
如何保护劳动者在AI时代仍拥有主体性的博弈能力？
如何避免数据成为新型“圈地运动”？
如何让技术重新服务于人的生命完整性，而不是反过来塑造人？
这些问题，或许已经不仅仅是伦理问题，而是新的文明制度问题。
三、道德主权的考验：教会是否正在向新数字资本降态？
最后，我们也愿以极大的敬意与谨慎，提出一个关于教会自身位置的问
题。
此次梵蒂冈邀请硅谷AI独角兽企业 Anthropic 联合创始人克里斯托
弗·奥拉（Christopher Olah）作为重要主讲嘉宾之一，本意显然是希望推动
技术伦理对话。
这一开放姿态，本身值得尊重。
然而，教会若在新的数字文明形成过程中，过度依赖特定科技资本所提供
的“AI安全框架”与“伦理对齐语言”，则难免令人担忧：
教会是否会在不知不觉中，将自身部分先知性权威，让渡给新的数字资本
秩序？
即便是最强调“AI安全”与“伦理对齐”的科技企业，本质上仍处于资
本、国家与产业竞争的现实逻辑之中。
因此，梵蒂冈若在硅谷新资本之间形成某种“拉一派、打一派”的结构性
站位，其实并不妥当。
因为教会真正珍贵的地方，恰恰在于它不应轻易依附任何帝国、任何资
本、任何世俗权力。
从《新事》到今天，天主教社会训导真正伟大的地方，从来不在于它成为
某种技术治理顾问，而在于它始终代表着一种超越性的、面向受苦生命的终极
关怀。
如果未来教会仅仅停留在：
“提醒AI风险”、
“倡导伦理监管”、
“呼吁企业自律”，
却无法真正进入那些被算法剥夺主体性的劳动者、青年人与边缘群体的现
实苦难之中，
那么，教会就可能从“先知性的见证者”，逐渐降态为“数字文明的道德
装饰者”。
四、结语：AI时代真正的问题，是人是否还愿彼此当人
从工业革命到 AI 革命，人类始终面对同一个问题：
人究竟是目的，还是工具？
是主体，还是资源？
是彼此承认的人，还是彼此利用的数据？
我们相信，真正值得警惕的，从来不只是 AI 本身，而是人在技术扩张中
逐渐失去彼此承认的能力。
如果技术最终只是让人类更高效地彼此利用，
那么无论 AI 多么先进，人类文明都不过是在以新的算法语言，重复巴别塔的
命运。
更值得警惕的是，AI 所放大的，并不仅仅是技术能力本身，而是各种组织
形态（TRUST）潜在的异化倾向。
无论是国家、资本、平台，甚至包括宗教组织（TRUST）自身，所有组织形
态，都必须警惕异化，一旦失去对生命（LIFE）主体性的敬畏，都可能在 AI
的加持下，逐渐滑向对人的重新客体化反噬。
人类真正需要的，从来不是一个越来越强大的“数字利维坦”， 因为，AI
从来不是孤立存在的技术。它总是嵌入某种组织结构之中，并不断强化其运行
逻辑。我们需要一种能够让生命、智能与组织重新彼此守约（Covenant）、彼
此承认、彼此共生的新文明秩序。
当 TRUST 背离生命，组织就可能反噬生命；当技术脱离共生，智能就可能
异化为控制。
也正是在这样的背景下，人类或许需要开始探索一种新的“技术—伦理—
生活方式”基础设施：
即在互联网（信息连接）与物联网（感知连接）之后，进一步探索一种以“孞
念交互”与“爱的智慧”为核心的 AM（Amorsophia MindsField/Network，愛之
智慧孞態场／网）构想，以同时回应 LIFE（生命）、AI（智能）与 TRUST（组
织信托）之间不断加剧的结构性紧张。
它并非为了创造新的数字利维坦，而是为了避免机器取代人、组织反噬生
命，让智能重新学会承载生命，让组织重新回归服务生命。
愿教会在这个关键时代，
不仅成为技术风险的警醒者，
而且成为“新事物”的倡导者，
更是荣耀上帝“新耶路撒冷”希望的见证者。
愿生命、智能与组织信托，
回归共生之约，
而非彼此支配。
谨以此呈上，
怀着希望与真理。
Amen！
交互主体共生基金会
（Intersubjective Symbiosism Foundation）
2026 年5月27日晨于温哥华