{"id":254715,"date":"2026-05-25T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-calls-for-disarming-of-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:45:10","slug":"pope-calls-for-disarming-of-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-calls-for-disarming-of-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope calls for \u2018disarming\u2019 of AI, technology should be \u2018human friendly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3354770\/pope-calls-disarming-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly\">Pope calls for \u2018disarming\u2019 of AI, technology should be \u2018human friendly\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3354770\/pope-calls-disarming-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3354770\/pope-calls-disarming-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 06:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pope Leo called for the \u201cdisarming\u201d of artificial intelligence in his long-awaited manifesto on the rapidly developing technology on Monday, and warned of \u201cnew forms of slavery\u201d behind its rise.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cjust war\u201d theory \u2013 <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">espoused recently by the Trump administration<\/span> \u2013 was \u201coutdated\u201d, Pope Leo XIV wrote in his first encyclical, which he presented in person at the Vatican, alongside AI experts including the co-founder of US giant Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first US pope, who has clashed with the White House over the Iran war and its use of religion to justify conflict, sounded the alarm over AI-directed weaponry, saying it was \u201cnot permissible to entrust lethal\u201d decisions to tech.<\/p>\n<p>US giant Anthropic, which has staked its position as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">an ethical AI company<\/span>, is embroiled in a legal battle with the US military after opposing the use of its technology for lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Without naming US President Donald Trump, Leo stressed it was \u201cimportant to reaffirm that the \u2018just war\u2019 theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, Christopher Olah, attends the presentation of Pope Leo\u2019s first Encyclical Letter \u2018Magnifica Humanitas\u2019, focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in the Vatican on Monday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNo algorithm can make war morally acceptable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3354770\/pope-calls-disarming-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope calls for \u2018disarming\u2019 of AI, technology should be \u2018human friendly\u2019 https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3354770\/pope-calls-disarming-ai-technology-should-be-human-friendly Publish Date: 2026-05-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/25\/67fc3b16-b37b-4a9e-b563-02c0f5b69269_d13fb036.jpg?itok=aa4pkiH6&v=1779705063","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254718,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715\/revisions\/254718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}