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Pope Leo XIV's encyclical frames AI governance as shareholder responsibility.

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that AI is a commercial product requiring oversight, not a neutral force of nature, and calls for solidarity in its deployment. For commerce practitioners, this validates the growing shareholder activism campaign—led by $400+ billion in institutional investor assets—demanding transparency, risk assessment, and human-rights safeguards from tech giants, signaling that governance pressure on AI systems will intensify as OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI firms enter public markets.