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Pope calls for strong AI regulation in landmark manifesto on humanity’s future
Vatican document urges ethical oversight, warns against profit-driven development and AI warfare risks
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Pope calls for strong AI regulation in landmark manifesto on humanity’s future
Vatican document urges ethical oversight, warns against profit-driven development and AI warfare risks
By Associated Press
Published: 2026-05-25T14:04:00+04:00
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Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful at the end of the Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 24, 2026. AP
Vatican City: Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and urged developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humanity as the technology reshapes everything from work to warfare.
“Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), Leo’s first encyclical, has been eagerly awaited since history’s first US-born pope announced shortly after his election that he considers AI the greatest challenge facing humanity today.
In the document, Leo criticised the “culture of power” driving the AI race, particularly in the development of increasingly sophisticated methods of remote warfare. He declared it “not permissible” to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems, setting up another point of tension between the American pope and the Trump administration, which has pursued aggressive deregulation of AI development.
Experts in the technology sector, academia and Catholic moral theology said the document is likely to become a benchmark in the global debate on AI, serving as a reference for policymakers, researchers and the wider public. It comes amid rapid advancements in the technology, which are fuelling concerns about job displacement and even the erosion of human intelligence.
“It lends itself to people who are at the forefront of these tools and able to see the incredible things they can do, to ask themselves, ‘What does it mean to be human?’” said Taylor Black, a Microsoft AI executive and director of the Catholic University of America’s AI institute.
The pope was due to present the
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