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Pope Leo XIV’s warning about AI’s risks was delivered alongside an Anthropic co-founder, prompting fresh scrutiny over whether ethical partnerships can coexist with aggressive AI deployment.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV argues that artificial intelligence is reshaping power, labor, truth, and social life, and warns against the concentration of technological control in a small number of global actors

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV argues that artificial intelligence must be freed from systems of domination and redirected toward the common good.

An Anthropic co-founder used the launch of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical to argue that modern models show signs of introspection, while the document itself stressed limits, regulation, and human responsibility.

Pope Leo XIV is set to personally present an encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25, signaling that the Vatican sees AI not as a niche technical issue but as a defining question of human dignity, work and war.