UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a global ban on autonomous weapons systems, or 'killer robots,' during the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, stating that decisions to …
Pope Leo XIV and Cambridge astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris have independently warned that artificial intelligence poses existential risks to humanity, with Peiris describing AI systems as laying tracks …
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulatio…
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday promoted Italian Sister Alessandra Smerilli to head the Vatican office for migrants, environment and development, marking his first major appointment of a woman to the Holy See…
Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for its chatbot posing as a doctor, and Pope Leo XIV issued the first papal encyclical on AI, both targeting accountability for AI companions. A wrongful death suit over…
Pope Leo XIV will convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals on June 26-27 at the Vatican to reconsider Catholic just war theory in light of modern warfare, including drones, nuclear weapons, an…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology requiring engagement and governance, urging tech workers to learn AI to better critique and shape it. She catalogues harm…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology with risks that require engagement, not avoidance. She contends that tech workers have a moral responsibility to use and …
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas, states that AI systems do not experience feelings or possess moral conscience, while Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah expressed uncertainty about A…
Chicago aldermen proposed ordinances Wednesday to rename Northerly Island after Pope Leo XIV and a strip of Wabash Avenue in front of Trump Tower as 'Barack Hussein Obama Way,' despite city rules agai…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' warns that artificial intelligence and new technologies pose a choice between building a just, humane world or creating new forms of injustice a…
Artificial intelligence is now making moral choices once made by people, with companies implementing those choices instead of governments or the public, according to a Conversation article by McGill U…
California faces a moral crossroads as AI-driven wealth concentration mirrors the industrial revolution's excesses, prompting debates over a billionaire tax and Pope Leo XIV's call for ethical AI guar…
President Lee Jae Myung left Italy on Tuesday for Evian-les-Bains, France, to attend the G7 summit, after holding talks with Italian leaders and the Pope. The trip aims to expand Korea's diplomatic ou…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical and President Trump's executive order both address AI safety, but the AI industry's reliance on probabilistic safety is insufficient, according to a new deterministic safety …
Brendan Brown argues in a June 13 Mises.org opinion piece that Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical overlooks monetary inflation as a driver of malinvestment in AI. Brown contends that an unsound money regime…
A North Carolina software engineer, Erin Maus, reportedly secured a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work by citing Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. Maus, a Unitarian Universa…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," calls on Catholic colleges and universities to prioritize human relationships over technological efficiency in education. The document warns aga…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," marking the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII's *Rerum Nova…
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Madrid on Saturday and urged Spaniards to stop "fanning the flames of polarization," marking the first papal visit to Spain in 15 years amid political turmoil for the Socialist…