Pope Leo XIV urges governments to ban lethal AI weapons, says tech must be used for common good
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Big quote: Pope Leo XIV has called for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed," urging governments meeting in Geneva for a UN weapons conference later this month to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons systems in warfare. Decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force, the pontiff said, must always remain under human oversight.
The pope also made the Catholic Church's position clear on the debate over whether AI systems should be granted rights or legal personhood, saying the Vatican sees machines as tools, not sentient beings with a claim to legal rights of their own. AI is developed by human beings, he added, and granting it rights or personhood would obscure human accountability.
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