The 200-person gathering of Nobel Prize winners and other notables at Castel Gandolfo began with a presentahttps://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/nobel-prize-experts-nuclear-war-artificial-intelligence-assembly.htmltion of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by Cardinal Angel Fernandez Artime, the Pro-prefect for the Dicastery for Institutes of the Consecrated Life. This was followed by a presentation by Cardinal Fabio Baggio. “We gather at a moment in history,” he said, “marked by increasingly profound geopolitical tensions, the fragmentation of the international order, and intensifying technological competition.” “At a time when the pace of innovation often exceeds that of reflection,” he warned, “the world stands in need of shared principles capable of guiding progress toward authentically human ends.”
Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, the president of Domus Communis Foundation expressed his view of the event’s aims. “May future generations be able to say that, at a moment when humanity possessed unprecedented power over its own destiny, women and men of conscience chose cooperation over confrontation, dialogue over fear, and hope over resignation.”