Pope Leo Calls for AI Weapons to Be “Disarmed,” Warns of Threat to Humanity
Pope Leo addressing a crowd in Equatorial Guinea. In a sweeping address, Pope Leo XIV has issued a stark warning about artificial intelligence, cautioning that the technology risks eroding human dignity, accelerating global conflict, and placing life-and-death decisions in the hands of unaccountable systems. The warning came in his first major encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), a wide-ranging document that places AI at the center