Pope Leo urges AI regulation in first encyclical (opens in new tab)

Pope Leo XIV used his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” to call for stronger public oversight of artificial intelligence and warn against development driven chiefly by profit, military use and concentrated control of data and infrastructure. The Vatican published the document May 25, and accounts described the English version as roughly 42,300 words and the text as about 82 to 83 pages. The encyclical says AI can ...