A Historic Declaration Welcoming and Responding to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Chief Architect of AIWS Lumina, has issued The Lumina Declaration on Human Dignity – For Humanity in the AI Age, a historic declaration welcoming and responding to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, published on May 25, 2026.
The Declaration affirms that the Age of Artificial Intelligence must be built upon human dignity, wisdom, trust, transparency, accountability, peace, and civilization. It calls for urgent global action to ensure that artificial intelligence serves humanity rather than diminishes it.
The Lumina Declaration represents the culmination of nearly a decade of work by the Boston Global Forum and AIWS since 2017, including initiatives such as:
- the Social Contract for the AI Age,
- AIWS Government 24/7,
- AIWS Trust Architecture,
- AIWS Trust Infrastructure,
- AIWS Information Trust Infrastructure,
- AIWS Trust Rating,
- AIWS Trust Index,
- and AIWS Lumina.
The Declaration also advances the implementation pathways presented in the book America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age, co-authored by Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan, together with the Beacon Declaration and Process announced at Harvard University’s Loeb House on May 1, 2026.
At the center of the Lumina Declaration is a simple but urgent principle:
“AI must not merely be powerful.
AI must be trustworthy, humane, transparent, accountable, and worthy of human dignity.”
The Declaration introduces a comprehensive framework for action, including:
- building AIWS Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age,
- advancing AIWS Information Trust Infrastructure,
- implementing AIWS Lumina as a cultural architecture for humanity,
- advancing the AIWS Trust Order,
- convening high-level dialogues with governments and technology leaders,
- mobilizing the America 250: AI Pioneers for Humanity,
- and launching implementation pathways across the United States, Europe, Japan, Vietnam, ASEAN, and the Global South.
The Declaration also highlights the upcoming BGF conference at Interop Tokyo 2026 on June 12, 2026, where leaders and partners will discuss practical implementation of the AIWS Trust Infrastructure and AIWS Trust Order, continuing the vision presented by Nguyen Anh Tuan in his Distinguished Keynote Address at the Headquarters of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party on March 31, 2026.
Reflecting on his participation in the Vatican Conference on Interfaith and his audience with Pope Francis on June 3, 2024, Nguyen Anh Tuan emphasized that the AI Age must be guided “not only by innovation, but by the deepest moral and spiritual traditions of humankind.”
The Lumina Declaration concludes with four foundational affirmations:
Human dignity is the foundation.
Trust is the infrastructure.
Wisdom is the direction.
Lumina is the cultural light for humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
The Declaration closes with a call that the Age of Artificial Intelligence be remembered “not as the age in which humanity surrendered its dignity to technology, but as the age in which humanity elevated technology through dignity, wisdom, trust, and civilization.”
Read and download the full Lumina Declaration here https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Lumina_Declaration_on_Human_Dignity.pdf
