Pope Leo XIV stood at the window of the Apostolic Palace on Sunday, looking out over a crowd of pilgrims gathered in the warm sunlight of St. Peter’s Square. The pontiff used the occasion of World Communications Day to announce his first major encyclical, scheduled for release on May 25, which will address the moral challenges posed by autonomous technology. He specifically urged faithful communicators to preserve “human voices and faces” in an era where digital simulations threaten to replace the divine image of the person. “In this era of artificial intelligence, I encourage everyone to commit themselves to promoting forms of communication that always respect the truth of the human person,” Pope Leo XIV said during his recitation of the Regina Caeli. The Vatican confirmed the upcoming text will likely decry the use of AI in warfare and provide the Church’s fullest guidance on workers' rights in decades. The spiritual call for human preservation arrives as the physical world grapples with the high cost of the machine. In Seoul, 48,000 workers at Samsung Electronics have walked off the job for 18 days to protest the rapid automation of chip foundries and unfair bonus caps. The strike has threatened the global supply of memory chips, according to industrial reports. Meanwhile, at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the debut of an entirely AI-generated film titled "Hell Grind" has sparked a social media firestorm. The movie cost $500,000 to produce, with $400,000 of that budget spent solely on the computing power required to generate its images. Actor Seth Rogen, speaking at the festival, described such content as “dog sh*t,” while jury member Moore insisted that filmmakers must learn to work with the technology. Seen alongside the unrest in Seoul, the Pope’s upcoming text appears to address a global crisis of human value. This paper’s reading of the current moment finds a world where the silicon circuit is being prioritized over the human soul; the causal link between Rome’s warning and the factory floor in Korea is one of shared existential dread.