Pope urgest humanity to slow down AI

 🕊️ Pope urges humanity to slow down AI
 
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his encyclical today at the Vatican. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

Pope Leo XIV, in his first encyclical, urged governments today to slow the development of AI systems, warning they can spread misinformation, prioritize conflict, and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.

“What is needed is a more active political involvement that is capable of slowing things down when everything is accelerating,” Leo writes in the 43,000-word text, “Magnifica humanitas” (Magnificent humanity).

The subtitle: “Encyclical letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.”

Why it matters: Leo, the first pope from the U.S., has adopted a more forceful tone in recent months. Today’s manifesto made a range of impassioned appeals to world leaders, Reuters reports.

Encyclicals are one of the highest forms of teaching from the leader of the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion members.

The pope says the biblical story of the Tower of Babel — where a human tribe, driven by pride, angers God by trying to create a tower tall enough to reach heaven — shows the risk of an enterprise that “aspires to reach heaven without God’s blessing.”

“With the heart of a shepherd and a father, I ask everyone to abandon the construction of yet another Tower of Babel and to join forces in building up the common good,” the pope said.

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