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…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah stated publicly that every frontier AI lab operates within incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing, acknowledging that no lab can serve as its own final…
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French AI startup Mistral, directly rebutted Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI” on Thursday, arguing that European companies cannot afford to step back from defence-AI work while…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, addressing the ethical and human implications of the technology 135 years after Pope Leo XIII's "Rerum Novarum" confronted the in…
Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* was not written by artificial intelligence, according to critics of recent claims on LessWrong that the document was largely AI-generated. The Va…
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, fails to address the most pressing questions of transformative artificial intelligence, focusing instead on dated issues like algorithmic bias and …
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, defends human imperfection as a source of dignity and warns against outsourcing human capabilities to artificial intelligence. The document argues…
Pope Leo XIV presented a new encyclical focused on artificial intelligence on May 25 in the Vatican's Synod Hall, with cardinals and Anthropic co-founder Ben Olah in attendance. The document addresses…
On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, to an audience of cardinals, diplomats, and AI industry leaders in the Vatican's Synod Hall — a historically…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according t…
AI job displacement is already occurring, with Anthropic's 2025 Economic Index showing that artificial intelligence is being used most heavily for complex, high-wage cognitive work such as software de…
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 invited Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah to speak at the Vatican on Monday during the presentation of his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, marking an unprecedented allianc…
Pope Leo XIV released a 42,000-word encyclical Monday warning that artificial intelligence, while surpassing human speed and capacity, merely imitates human intelligence and lacks traits like love, co…
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…
A new review framework based on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* provides tools and skills for both humans and AI agents to evaluate whether projects preserve judgment, conscience, rela…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, released May 15, 2025, contains large sections that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence, according to analysis by multiple independe…
Pope Leo XIV released a 44,000-word encyclical on Monday titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling for a global ban on autonomous weapons and stricter regulation of AI to prevent the concentration of powe…