May 25, 2026

Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate

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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...