Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be “disarmed” to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should regulate a technology that is reshaping the world.
In a landmark address to the Catholic Church, which included a video presentation with images of the Industrial Revolution, World War II and the Berlin Wall falling, the pope called for making AI more “human-friendly.” He said the technology needs to be freed from monopolistic control, shifting away from using it to achieve geopolitical or commercial gains.
“To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,” the pope said Monday in his new encyclical to the faithful. “To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.”
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