Pope Leon XIV Warns AI Threatens Human Dignity, Calls for Global Ethical Oversight
The Vatican released Pope Leon XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, a 130-page document addressing AI ethics, on May 25, 2026, marking the first major papal statement on the technology. The text condemns AI’s “new forms of slavery” and calls for global ethical oversight, while the pope personally presented the document alongside tech experts, including Anthropic co-founder … Read more