{"id":258873,"date":"2026-05-29T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical-israel-jewish-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:50:15","slug":"when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical-israel-jewish-news\/","title":{"rendered":"When AI lies about Jews: A response to the pope\u2019s encyclical &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/stuart-n-brotman\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical\">When AI lies about Jews: A response to the pope\u2019s encyclical &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/stuart-n-brotman\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical\">https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/stuart-n-brotman\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 12:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jns.org\">www.jns.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <span>(<br \/>\n                                May 29, 2026<br \/>\n                                 \/ JNS<br \/>\n                            )<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV\u2019s new encyclical on artificial intelligence, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Magnifica Humanitas<\/span>, warns that artificial intelligence is supercharging disinformation and fueling what he calls \u201chybrid\u201d conflicts\u2014wars fought as much in the realm of images and narratives as on physical battlefields. For many Jews, that description is not a thought experiment. It is daily life online.<\/p>\n<p>Ask any Jewish student who has opened a phone after a flare\u2011up in the Middle East. AI\u2011curated feeds deliver a torrent of content about Israel and the Gaza Strip, much of it emotionally charged, context\u2011free and sometimes flatly false. Generative tools can now fabricate images and \u201ceyewitness\u201d accounts that never happened, while recommendation algorithms quietly learn that outrage about Jews and Israel is a reliable way to keep users engaged.<\/p>\n<p>The pope is right to worry about what happens to truth when machines learn to tell convincing lies faster than humans can correct them. But for Jews, disinformation is not only a philosophical or civic problem. It is a security problem rooted in centuries of experience with blood libels, forged texts and conspiracy theories that have repeatedly spilled into violence.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research bears this out.<\/p>\n<p>A 2025 report by the Anti\u2011Defamation League found that some of the leading AI models show measurable anti\u2011Jewish and anti\u2011Israel bias, including generating classic antisemitic tropes and skewed accounts of the Israel\u2011Hamas conflict. Other studies describe \u201cdigital antisemitism\u201d as the largest propaganda machine targeting Jews since the Holocaust, with social media and AI working together to push users toward increasingly extreme anti\u2011Israel and anti\u2011Jewish content. For example,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/stuart-n-brotman\/when-ai-lies-about-jews-a-response-to-the-popes-encyclical\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When AI lies about Jews: A response to the pope\u2019s encyclical &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/dbadf47\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1920x1080+0+17\/resize\/1440x810!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F30%2F9b%2F459c9fd64036b30b6db8c58ef61f%2Fai-and-humans.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-258873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873"}],"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=258873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258875,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873\/revisions\/258875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}