{"id":213780,"date":"2026-05-14T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/pope-leo-xiv-warns-of-ai-and-weaponry-leading-to-global-annihilation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:55:09","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-warns-of-ai-and-weaponry-leading-to-global-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/pope-leo-xiv-warns-of-ai-and-weaponry-leading-to-global-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV warns of AI and weaponry leading to global annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-artificial-intelligence-iran-mideast-gaza-171df0329f7b6645124900c1e038c1f6\">Pope Leo XIV warns of AI and weaponry leading to global annihilation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-artificial-intelligence-iran-mideast-gaza-171df0329f7b6645124900c1e038c1f6\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-artificial-intelligence-iran-mideast-gaza-171df0329f7b6645124900c1e038c1f6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 08:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"apnews.com\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV denounced investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry as leading the world into a &#8220;spiral of annihilation&#8221; during a speech at Rome&#8217;s La Sapienza University.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time a pope had visited the campus since Pope Benedict XVI cancelled a planned visit in 2008 due to protests.<\/li>\n<li>The pope called for peace in the Middle East, specifically referencing the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.<\/li>\n<li>He criticized the increased military spending and its impact on education and healthcare systems, especially in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Leo also called for better monitoring of AI development and usage, advocating that it must not absolve humans of responsibility or exacerbate conflicts.<\/li>\n<li>The pope met with young Palestinian students who arrived via a &#8220;humanitarian corridor&#8221; to continue their studies in Italy amid the Gaza conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Leo identified AI as a critical matter for humanity, particularly its application in warfare, which he will explore further in his upcoming encyclical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV warns of AI and weaponry leading to global annihilation https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-artificial-intelligence-iran-mideast-gaza-171df0329f7b6645124900c1e038c1f6 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/f5a5e3c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5757+0+1\/resize\/980x653!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F66%2F52%2F8ee7ff139d8659b8faf75d790c17%2F6a5988ce22aa46e29a843833541fc5ec","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213782,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213780\/revisions\/213782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}