{"id":256784,"date":"2026-05-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-the-pope-said-about-a-i\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:05:23","slug":"what-the-pope-said-about-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-the-pope-said-about-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Pope Said About A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai\">What the Pope Said About A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newyorker.com\">www.newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">If those of us Americans who are Catholic are proud of this Pope, many of us are even prouder that the first American pontiff has taken on this vital matter, and at such a crucial moment. In much of American culture\u2014and especially in the business and tech press\u2014challenging the economic power and oligarchic rule of U.S.-based artificial-intelligence companies is an act tantamount to heresy. Pope Leo is not only willing but eager to dissent. Bless him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Much of the encyclical involves defending the proposition that the Vatican ought to be\u2014and has always been\u2014engaged in making statements about new and very worldly things like artificial intelligence. \u201cThe Church is present in history and engages in dialogue with the world,\u201d Leo argues. He agrees with the Sam Altmans and Elon Musks of the world that humanity stands at a crossroads. But at this crossroads, he argues, three questions must be asked: \u201cWhere are we going? Toward what goal do we wish to orient ourselves? What direction should we choose as a people and as a human community?\u201d Invoking a Biblical story about hubris, the building of the Tower of Babel, he warns of what he calls the \u201cBabel syndrome\u201d: \u201cnamely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language\u2014even a digital one\u2014can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Beginning with the fundamental dignity of the human, Leo traces the inalienable, universal equality of persons and their inviolable rights. He establishes, within the Church\u2019s Social Doctrine (traceable to \u201cRerum Novarum\u201d), principles that include the commitment to the common good, which he defines as \u201cthe social expression of the dignity recognized in every person.\u201d Revisiting Pope Francis\u2019s \u201cLaudati Si\u2019\u00a0\u201d (\u201cPraise Be to You\u201d), a 2015 encyclical that called for the protection of the environment, \u201cour common home,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Pope Said About A.I. https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai Publish Date: 2026-05-27 06:00:00 Source Domain: www.newyorker.com If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/6a15db7b1f527452d1a33c45\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/Leopore-Leo-2026-05-25T103726Z_1756368399_RC2AGLAHUU9A_RTRMADP_3_POPE-ENCYCLICAL-PRESENTATION.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256784","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\/256784"}],"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=256784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256788,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256784\/revisions\/256788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}