Magnifica Humanitas: A Collaborative Reading & Discussion on AI & What It Means to Be Human

​Join us for a provocative and soulful kickoff to Hawaii Tech Week: a collaborative reading of excerpts from Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity").

​Come grab a matcha or coffee at the Hello Again Recharge Lounge, then share your leo and manaʻao.

​Together, we will read the Pope's words on technology, responsibility, and the sacredness of the person, then reflect in conversation on not just the encyclical, but what a uniquely Hawaiʻi response to AI can look like. What wisdom from the pae ʻāina—about relationship, stewardship, interdependence, and the limits of extraction—might the rest of the world need to hear?

​Absolutely no religious or tech background required.

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​About Magnifica Humanitas

​In May 2026, Pope Leo published a 192-page document devoted entirely to Artificial Intelligence. At its heart is a question that every technologist, artist, parent, and citizen is now facing: in an era when AI can think, write, and decide for us, what remains of human dignity?

​The Pope argues that AI must be "disarmed"—freed from the logics of military domination, economic extraction, and cognitive competition—and reoriented toward the flourishing of real, embodied, magnificent human beings.

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​About the organizers

​Hosted by The Novus Group’s Recharge Lounge in collaboration with Pythia, a community intelligence + AI startup (www.thepythia.ai) co-founded by Honolulu-based activist and Zen Buddhist priest, Cristina Moon. The first collaborative reading of the encyclical was held in Oakland, and at least one future reading is planned in LA.

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​Agenda

​9:30–9:45 AM — Arrive, grab a drink + welcome
9:45 AM — Collaborative Reading
10:40 AM — Discussion
11:00 AM — Pau

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​Space is limited. RSVP required.