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By Flavia Rotondi and Alessandra Migliaccio, Bloomberg News<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be \u201cdisarmed\u201d to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should regulate a technology that is reshaping the world.<\/p>\n

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In a landmark address to the Catholic Church, which included a video presentation with images of the Industrial Revolution, World War II and the Berlin Wall falling, the pope called for making AI more \u201chuman-friendly.\u201d He said the technology needs to be freed from monopolistic control, shifting away from using it to achieve geopolitical or commercial gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,\u201d the pope said Monday in his new encyclical to the faithful. \u201cTo disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

By wading so publicly on the need to protect humans in the age of AI, the first American pope in history has potentially put himself on a collision course with U.S. President Donald Trump, who favors deregulation of the rapidly-evolving technology to maintain a competitive edge against China.<\/p>\n

The 70-year-old pope is joining a furious debate over how far AI models should be constrained amid fears about their potential to wreak havoc on the banking system, to select targets for military attacks and eventually to replace humans in vast swathes of decision making. <\/p>\n

The release of the document called Magnifica humanitas, which means magnificent humanity in Latin, marks the pontiff\u2019s most consequential act since becoming the head of the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Catholics a year ago. Encyclicals, as these letters are known, are a way for popes to provide moral guidance on the biggest challenges of their times, including hot-button issues like climate change and migration.<\/p>\n

A mathematician by training, Leo also warned specifically about the dangers of using computing in warfare and losing track of the moral considerations, saying \u201cno algorithm can make war morally acceptable.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cAI does not remove the intrinsic inhumanity of conflict, indeed it can only bring about conflict more quickly and render it more impersonal,\u201d the pope said. He warned against the possibility that some \u201cmay consider armed conflict as an effective way of diverting attention from domestic problems and a cynical tool for managing difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments come as the unveiling of Mythos, an artificial intelligence tool by Anthropic PBC that can identify unknown flaws in IT systems, has triggered anxiety across the globe over the past months. <\/p>\n

In raising the alarm on the risks of unregulated AI, it\u2019s telling that the Vatican extended an invitation to Anthropic\u2019s co-founder Christopher Olah, an expert of machine learning. The maker of the popular Claude chatbot has clashed with the Trump administration over the use of its technology for war and surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more of the world \u2013 religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments \u2013 to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction,\u201d Olah said in a speech following the pope\u2019s presentation. \u201cWe need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert who is close to Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel \u2014 an early investor in OpenAI \u2014 hinted at the brewing tension. Recently, Leo and Trump sparred over the pope\u2019s opposition to the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think when the the leader of the world\u2019s largest Christian denomination speaks on an issue like that, it\u2019s certainly going to have some influence, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll contain a lot of insights,\u201d Vance said at a press briefing on May 19. \u201cSome of which I\u2019ll probably agree with, some of which I may not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiel was in Rome earlier this year for some much-publicized closed-door lectures on the anti-christ. In response, Vatican adviser Father Paolo Benanti attacked Thiel\u2019s libertarian views in an op-ed calling them \u201ca sustained act of heresy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Roman Catholic Church has been increasingly vocal about its concerns on AI, making the case that the powerful tool requires rules to protect human dignity and the common good. <\/p>\n

For Leo, his clear inspiration is Pope Leo XIII, who guided the Church during the first industrial revolution and wrote the Rerum Novarum encyclical. Not only did the current pope choose Leo as his name to honor his 19th century predecessor, he is drawing a direct line between the disruption that machine-driven mass production unleashed on workers then to what AI is doing to workers today.<\/p>\n

The pope \u201cwants to make sure that what happens with AI is not just based on economics, not just based on how rich a bunch of billionaires can become, and that there are guardrails on it and how it is used,\u201d said Father Thomas Reese, a senior analyst and catholic scholar in an interview. <\/p>\n

From reports of chatbots steering users toward suicide to the apocalyptic predictions of mass unemployment, the topic of AI is divisive and emotional. Still, Leo\u2019s style is more understated than that of Pope Francis, who made a historic address to Group of Seven leaders back in 2024 where he warned them not to lose control of AI. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data,\u201d the pope wrote. <\/p>\n

The danger, he says, is when technology \u201cbegins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded,\u201d reducing \u201chuman beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2014With assistance from Donato Paolo Mancini, Seth Fiegerman, Zoe Schneeweiss and Chiara Albanese.<\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/p>\n

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