The Pope and the Dynamo
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* addressing artificial intelligence, marking the 135th anniversary of *Rerum Novarum*. The document explicitly ret…
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* addressing artificial intelligence, marking the 135th anniversary of *Rerum Novarum*. The document explicitly ret…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* warns that artificial intelligence threatens to dominate humanity and calls for regulatory tools to curb its distorting effects on society. The docu…
Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, positioning the Catholic Church's response to artificial intelligence as a parallel to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical "Reru…
The AI-detection tool Pangram has become the standard for identifying AI-generated text, leading to high-profile accusations against a major publisher's novel, articles in The New York Times, award-wi…
Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah jointly called for global AI regulation at the Vatican on Monday, with the pontiff's first encyclical demanding AI be disarmed and the AI executi…
Opponents of federal AI regulation have spent the past year blocking legislation in Washington, but their strategy backfired this week when Illinois passed SB 315, the strictest state AI law to date. …
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" identifies artificial intelligence as inherently male-dominated, arguing that AI systems trained primarily by men and on male-created data reinforce gen…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on Monday, warning against concentrating artificial intelligence power in the hands of a few private companies and calling for greater oversight and regulati…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that "technology is never neutral," framing artificial intelligence as a commercial product that humanity must steer toward the common good…
Pope Leo XIV released his first papal encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, a 40,000-word document that warns tech companies' concentration of capital and power threatens to degrade human life. The encyc…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," declares artificial intelligence the defining "new thing" of the modern age and critiques the economic and political systems that produced it. T…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch rejected Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm” artificial intelligence, arguing Europe must develop its own advanced AI capabilities to counter threats from rivals and adversaries.…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new financing, valuing the artificial intelligence start-up at $900 billion and surpassing OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion to become the world’s most valuable A…
Vice President JD Vance warned graduating Air Force cadets on Thursday that artificial intelligence must not supersede human judgment in warfare, telling them to "never submit to" technology. Vance's …
Vice President JD Vance told Air Force Academy graduates Thursday that he worries "the most" about artificial intelligence changing warfare, warning that decisions over life and death "must be made by…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence to protect human dignity and the common good.…
Anthropic opened its sixth European office in Milan on Wednesday, naming Generali Group, Pirelli, and Enel among a roster of Italian enterprise customers. The expansion coincides with Pope Leo XIV's A…
Pope Leo XIV published *Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence* in May 2026, the first papal document dedicated entirely to AI. The 235-page encyc…
A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made over $1 million betting that singer D4vd would be the most-searched person of 2025 using confidential…
The Vatican released the encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, urging governments to slow and regulate artificial intelligence development while protecting workers, children, and human con…