Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah.
Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in Rome on Monday, to call for the disarmament of artificial intelligence.
The 245-paragraph document, titled Magnifica humanitas, frames AI as a technology that has begun to dominate the people it was built to serve, and argues that disarming it means restoring the moral primacy of the human over the algorithm.
“To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,” the pope wrote.
“To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.”
The encyclical is the most consequential act of his year-old papacy, and the first time a pope has organised an entire foundational letter around an emerging technology rather than a doctrinal or social...
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