Pope Leo's new encyclical on AI shifts the Overton window on AI ethics, raising the political and reputational cost of vague governance. Yvette Schmitter of Fusion Collective outlines four concrete mo…
Pope Leo's concerns about artificial intelligence prioritizing technology and profit over human welfare are well-founded, according to a letter writer who argues that humanity loses in the race for AI…
Catholic reactions to Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" have ranged from praise for its balanced approach to AI to criticism that it did not go far enough in addressing existential threa…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowle…
Pope Leo issued an encyclical warning about artificial intelligence, prompting a roundtable discussion on The Dispatch podcast featuring Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Michael Warren.…
Business Insider published an opinion piece on May 27, 2026, characterizing recent public comments from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo as "reasonable" and as offering hope for an AI "middle gr…
Pope Leo XIV quoted Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings* in his new encyclical on AI and technology, marking the first time a fictional character has been cited in a major papal docum…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, was released on Memorial Day with the subtitle "on the safeguarding of the human person in the time of AI," deliberately avoiding a focus on the…
Pope Leo warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence risks concentrating excessive power in the hands of Big Tech companies and their leaders. The pontiff’s statement comes amid growing…
Pope Leo issued the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence must be "disarmed" and condemning the risk of "new digital slaveries" that could normalize exploit…