Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, told NBC News anchor Tom Llamas that he has 'great love for America' but sees his mission as 'pastor of a universal church.' The pope also issued warnings on …
The Vatican has obtained official certification from Proudly Human that Pope Leo XIV's 43,000-word encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* is entirely human-authored, after AI evangelists and detection tools…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' warns against 'technological divinization' as AI surpasses human intelligence, prompting Silicon Valley to grapple with God-like powers and techno-theol…
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…
Key players including Anthropic, OpenAI, the Vatican, and U.S. Congress are debating AI guardrails, with disagreements over prioritizing catastrophic risks, human dignity, or national competitiveness.…
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…
The Vatican established an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence on May 16, holding its first meeting on June 17 at Palazzo San Callisto to inventory AI initiatives and draft usage gu…
Brett Hurt's new book 'Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All' argues that fear, not technology, is the primary bottleneck in the AI age. Hurt, a serial Austin founder, cal…
A developer building a Catholic theology AI app implemented a groundedness evaluation pipeline to prevent hallucinations and ensure doctrinal accuracy. The app, Catholic Theology: AI & Faith, combines…
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…
An indie developer outlines strategies for ranking niche mobile apps, using a Catholic AI app as a case study. The post details technical approaches like retrieval-augmented generation and prompt engi…
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…
Shaping AI outcomes is like poker: high variance, small edges, and low skill expression, making it impossible to judge progress by results. They advocate for a diversified portfolio of bets rather tha…
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…
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…
An independent developer building a niche Catholic AI application must navigate strict Apple App Store guidelines while ensuring absolute theological accuracy, as even minor AI hallucinations can cont…
Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah, a self-declared atheist and billionaire AI safety researcher, sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last week to warn that the tech industry cannot govern itself. Olah…
The Vatican and AI safety company Anthropic have independently warned that AI companionship systems risk eroding real human relationships by substituting simulated emotional connections for genuine bo…
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…