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Posted on 05/25/2026 7:26:04 AM PDT by Callahan
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), Leo’s first encyclical, has been eagerly awaited ever since history’s first U.S.-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today. In the text, Leo denounced the “culture of power” driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare. He declared that it was “not permissible” to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems, setting up another flash point between the American pope and the Trump administration, which has worked aggressively to deregulate AI development. “Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death,″ the pope told a special Vatican presentation of the encyclical, one of the most authoritative types of teaching documents a pope can issue.
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Pope needs to get his denomination in order before he starts tackling AI or anything else.
Stay in your lane, Prevost.
Who asked him?
Seriously. Who gives a rat’s ass what today’s apostate Popes have to say?
Apostate pope = antipope
The chair is empty.
Come Lord Jesus!
Even worse than Frank the fraud.
“Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence”. Why is the Pope of the Catholic Church concerned about that?
Leo is evidently an expert on everything. Artificial intelligence, immigration, climate change, etc.
I should probably send Leo an email, as I’m having trouble updating my old iPad.
He’ll know what to do.
🤔
quote “he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today”
LMAO
proof positive that the Popes are nothing special and can be just as stupid as anyone else.
AI isn’t even in the top 100
“... robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required...”
“Communities and intermediary organizations must ... be able to contribute to discernment and oversight. Moreover, ownership of data cannot be left solely in private hands but must be appropriately regulated.”
IOW: “You didn’t build that.” Globalist bureaucrats and grifting NGOs drool at the chance to take control. Pure Oblather-style communist BS, couched in a pile of verbiage, envy clothed in charity.
does the pope even preach BIBLICAL sermons anymore? Or is he all about trying to run our nation by himself?
Why?
he said in the document
“the development and use of AI in warfare must be subject to the most rigorous ethical constraints, to guarantee respect for human dignity and the sanctity of life and to avoid a race to develop such arms. It is not permissible to entrust lethal decisions to technology rather than humans”
And “In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.”
So that’s why
Leo said “You think Frank was bad? Here... Hold my beer”
Pope knows as much about AI as he does about sex
This wasn’t a sermon - rather it was an encyclical (meaning a 40,000 word document.
The Pope did give a sermon on the 24th of May — https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2026/documents/20260524-pentecoste.html
This was a reflection on the life-giving action of the Holy Spirit.
Here’s some of what he said
“
The Easter season reaches its fulfillment today on the Solemnity of Pentecost. To highlight the continuity of this salvific event, the Gospel takes us back to the “first day of the week” (Jn 20:19), that is, to that new day on which the risen Jesus appeared to the disciples, showing them “his hands and his side” (v. 20). The Lord reveals his glorious body, specifically his wounds, the marks of the crucifixion. These signs of the Passion, more eloquent than words, are now transfigured; he who was dead lives forever.
Upon seeing the Lord, the disciples too are restored back to life. They had shut themselves in the Upper Room, overcome by fear, but Jesus comes and stands among them, even though the doors were closed, and fills them with joy. He passes through our “death,” opening the tomb and throwing it wide open when there was no way out for us. Christ accompanies his actions with the words: “Peace be with you” (v. 19); and immediately afterward, he breathes the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. The risen One is full of life. After having proven that he was restored to life as true man, he bestows the life of God as the beloved Son of the Father who has become, for our sake, our brother and Redeemer. In the same Upper Room where he instituted the new and eternal covenant, Jesus pours out the Spirit. The place of the Last Supper and the betrayal is transformed; the tomb of the Apostles becomes, for the entire Church, the womb of the Resurrection. Pentecost is therefore a Paschal feast and a feast of the body of Christ, which by grace is all of us.
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As if Il Papa Clown knows the first thing about AI. His Vatican cronies whispered this into his ears. I wish him well but he needs dumping some of the boilerplate liberalism-socialism. I miss the common sense popes from Poland and Germany. Argentina and Chicago have given us duds.
The encyclical is 40K words and you can read it for yourself - https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
” In order to answer these questions and discern how to navigate responsibly the era of AI, I would like to bring to mind two scenes from the Bible: the construction of the Tower of Babel (cf. Gen 11:1-9) and the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem (cf. Neh 2–6). The story of Babel appears in the Book of Genesis, at the origins of humanity, immediately after the genealogies of Noah’s sons. After settling in a plain in the land of Shinar, the people decided to build a city and a tower “with its top in the heavens” (Gen 11:4). Fearing being scattered across the earth, they sought to guarantee stability and power for themselves, and above all to “make a name” for themselves. It was an impressive feat: a single language, a single technology, a single direction. However, the project concealed a profound danger. It was a project conceived without reference to God, supported by a uniformity that eliminated diversity and that chose homogenization over communion. When a city is built on pride and the claim to self-sufficiency, communication breaks down, languages are confused and people no longer understand each other. The result is not unity, but dispersion. Babel thus reveals the limits of any effort that, however grandiose, arises from self-affirmation, sacrifices human dignity for efficiency and aspires to reach heaven without God’s blessing.”
“he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today”
The document https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
does NOT use this phrase.
I’ve never trusted AP when they summarize stuff
Thank you. I was just going to post the encyclical as well. The anti-Catholics come out early and strong.
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
Exactly — https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
it’s a 40,000 word document - not a sermon, and its quite detailed and it has a lot of biblical teachings etc.
The media of course puts words into the Pope’s mouth and then we have a bunch of folks who just read the headlines.
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