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Pope to release major artificial intelligence manifesto<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/pope-to-release-major-artificial-intelligence-manifesto<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-24 22:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.straitstimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

VATICAN CITY \u2013 Pope Leo XIV will release on May 25 his long-awaited manifesto on artificial intelligence, a bid to address ethical and social challenges as the technology rapidly develops worldwide.<\/p>\n

The US Pope will attend the presentation of the \u201cMagnifica Humanitas\u201d (Magnificent Humanity) encyclical at the Vatican in person \u2013 a first for the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

He will be joined not only by officials from the Holy See but experts including the co-founder of the American start-up Anthropic, a key player in the booming AI landscape.<\/p>\n

Anthropic is in a legal battle with the US military<\/span> after refusing to change its internal policy prohibiting the use of its Claude model for lethal autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo has denounced the race for AI in the military field, saying that \u201cdelegating decisions concerning the life and death of human beings to machines\u201d is a \u201cdestructive spiral\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since his election in <\/span>2025<\/span> as the Church\u2019s first US pope,<\/span> he has repeatedly warned of the dangers of AI, including \u201cthe gradual replacement of reality by its simulation\u201d.<\/p>\n

And he has slammed the \u201cenvironmental devastation\u201d caused by the \u201cfrenzied race\u201d for rare earth elements, which are essential for modern electronics.<\/p>\n

AI could be worth up to US$4.8 trillion (S$61.27 trillion) by 2033, a 25-fold increase in a decade, while concentrating its profits in the hands of a limited few, according to the UN.<\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in 2025 warned \u201cthe window is closing to shape AI \u2013 for peace, for justice, for humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo has made the hot-button issue a cornerstone of his papacy in dedicating to it his first encyclical \u2013 a document which lays the basis for Church teaching and longer-term debate.<\/p>\n

Experts say Magnifica Humanitas could prove as influential as Pope Francis\u2019 \u201cLaudato Si\u201d, a 2015 climate manifesto that triggered political and civic reactions worldwide.<\/p>\n

The Vatican sees this new text as an extension of its social…<\/p>\n

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