Pope Leo XIV issues first papal encyclical on AI, calling for 'disarming' of artificial intelligence
The encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' warns against the 'culture of power' driving the AI race, calls for independent external regulation, and demands a ban on delegating lethal decisions to AI systems.
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The Vatican published the full encyclical text and identifies it as Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.
AP coverage frames the document as a manifesto calling for robust AI regulation, which supports the attribution while showing the regulatory interpretation comes from coverage of a normative document.
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The encyclical is a formal Vatican document, publicly signed and released. Multiple major outlets covered the Vatican presentation where Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah participated.
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