Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power
Pope Leo XIV has made artificial intelligence the subject of the first major teaching issued since his appointment in May 2025, and included warnings that AI could lead to Big Tech companies and the moguls that accumulating power that they will abuse for the sake of profit.
The Pope’s teaching is an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas – On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
The Pope strongly argues that AI must not be considered human.
“These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence,” he wrote. “In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing.”
“So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love,...
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