AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler praised Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ as profoundly aligned with labor-movement values, calling its significance ‘absolutely huge’ in remarks at a Vatican forum on socio-environmental dialogue. She emphasized the importance of social dialogue on AI and cited the AFL-CIO’s 2023 partnership with Microsoft, which guarantees worker involvement in AI development decisions and includes neutrality protections for unionization efforts.
