https://preview.redd.it/14d79viwff3h1.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7436245700a1ea2d865eee34dbd16f91237a5d1 So on Monday, Pope Leo XIV released the first major encyclical of his papacy, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity). He is basically calling on the international community to “disarm” artificial intelligence and put some strict state and global regulations on the tech sector. The whole text is 42,300 words long, and the Pope pretty heavily criticizes the military and commercial race that is driving AI development right now. Interestingly, Christopher Olah, a co-founder and head of interpretability at Anthropic, was actually at the Vatican for the presentation. The document emphasizes that technological progress and corporate profits cannot justify massive job losses or the hidden exploitation of people working behind the scenes to clean data and train these models. Even though UN data projects the global AI industry will hit $4.8 trillion by 2033, Pope Leo is warning against what he calls “new digital slavery.” He also notes that letting AI systems make lethal or irreversible decisions is unacceptable, which goes directly against the deregulation policies pushed by the Trump administration. At the same time, the Pope apologized for how long it took the Catholic Church to historically condemn slavery, calling it a “wound in Christian memory.” This is the Vatican’s first massive intervention into global tech policy, and it is going to add a lot of ethical and legal pressure on developers and governments to prioritize human rights and safety as AI keeps rolling out. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/pope-leo-encyclical-ai-artificial-intelligence-slavery submitted by /u/andrewaltair
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