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…
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…
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…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah joined Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday to endorse the pontiff's new encyclical on artificial intelligence, while also suggesting the company's AI systems show ear…