{"id":255353,"date":"2026-05-25T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-warns-of-ais-risks-to-humanity-in-his-first-encyclical\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:15:08","slug":"pope-leo-warns-of-ais-risks-to-humanity-in-his-first-encyclical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-warns-of-ais-risks-to-humanity-in-his-first-encyclical\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo warns of AI\u2019s risks to humanity in his first encyclical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Leo warns of AI\u2019s risks to humanity in his first encyclical<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/pope-leo-warns-of-ais-risks-to-humanity-in-his-first-encyclical-283684<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-25 20:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: a formal letter intended to guide moral, social and theological thought. Titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), it argues technology must serve humanity, rather than concentrate power or weaken human dignity. <\/p>\n

He presented it at the Vatican alongside AI developer Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, who acknowledged that companies like his need moral guidance to guard against \u201cincentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing\u201d, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology is not simply a tool,\u201d read the roughly 42,300-word open letter. \u201cWhen it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, has acknowledged companies like his need moral guidance.<\/span>
\n Maurizio Brambatti\/AAP<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It warns that AI is never truly neutral, but \u201ctakes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it\u201d. And it calls for ethical oversight, social justice, protection of workers, responsible governance and peace. <\/p>\n

Automated warfare<\/h2>\n

The encyclical criticises the use of AI in warfare, calling for imposing the \u201cmost rigorous ethical constraints\u201d on weapons developed using AI. <\/p>\n

As governments invest heavily in autonomous military technologies and AI-assisted defence systems, the \u201cgrowing ease\u201d of deploying them makes war more likely and \u201cless subject to human control\u201d, it warns. This \u201cviolates the principle that armed force should be used only as a last resort in cases of legitimate self-defense\u201d.<\/p>\n

The letter also criticises the growing concentration of…<\/p>\n

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