{"id":255167,"date":"2026-05-25T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/as-a-i-fever-rises-in-silicon-valley-pope-leo-has-a-few-words\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:20:08","slug":"as-a-i-fever-rises-in-silicon-valley-pope-leo-has-a-few-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/as-a-i-fever-rises-in-silicon-valley-pope-leo-has-a-few-words\/","title":{"rendered":"As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/25\/technology\/pope-ai-silicon-valley.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-25 14:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Silicon Valley has always had messianic dreams, dating back to the days when computers filled entire rooms.<\/p>\n

One of the oldest industry jokes has a programmer asking a computer, \u201cIs there a God?\u201d The computer answers: \u201cThere is now.\u201d The Whole Earth Catalog, a proto-hacker compendium of tools that deeply influenced Steve Jobs, proclaimed, \u201cWe are as gods and might as well get good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

By investing hundreds of billions of dollars in artificial intelligence, tech leaders are signaling that those early dreams have been fulfilled. Next stop, transcendence.<\/p>\n

Just as the new religion of A.I. seemed to be solidifying its control over mankind\u2019s destiny, however, a new voice is being heard on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n

Its message to the tech industry: Slow down. Elevate the human. Machines are not gods.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, published with great ceremony on Monday his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, or \u201cMagnificent Humanity.\u201d The 42,300-word policy statement is respectful and named no names, but is at heart a sharp rebuke to Silicon Valley\u2019s assertions that it alone can be trusted to develop the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cA.I. can be a valuable tool,\u201d the pope acknowledged, but the technology \u201ctends to amplify the power of those who already possess economic resources, expertise and access to data.\u201d Without adequate oversight and transparency, he warned, \u201cthose who control A.I. will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would be bad news, he said: \u201cA more moral A.I. is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.\u201d<\/p>\n

The encyclical is expected to be at the center of the 70-year-old pontiff\u2019s reign in the same way that Rerum Novarum, which advocated for workers\u2019 rights and a fair wage, was at the heart of Pope Leo XIII\u2019s papacy at the end of the 19th century. Released while Silicon Valley slept, Magnifica Humanitas marked the latest effort to shape and possibly…<\/p>\n

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