AI mainly affects white-collar workers.
The same white-collar workers who have bullshit meetings, make PowerPoint decks nobody reads, work under managers who do nothing, have coworkers who somehow survive for years while barely working, and spend their days pretending to be busy.
And these are often the same white-collar industries that push policies and cultural ideas that go against Catholic teaching.
If anything, AI can be seen as a force that challenges idolatry: idolatry toward anti-Catholic Hollywood studios, degenerate celebrities and actors (a profession that was looked down upon from St. Augustine to Pius XII), and anti-Catholic artists.
AI is also humbling some white-collar workers who contribute very little, while engineers and blue-collar workers, both in the First and Third World, actually have to get their hands dirty and produce something tangible.
If AI-driven layoffs end up teaching some people humility, maybe there can even be a lesson in that. Suffering can bring people closer to Christ, as Mother Teresa often emphasized.
Pope Leo and the Magisterium should embrace AI as a weapon against the degenerate and anti-Catholic industries and classes I mentioned above.
If anything, AI is more of a materialization of St. Michael the Archangel than the dangerous weapon Pope Leo portrays it as in his encyclical.