{"id":214205,"date":"2026-05-15T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare-says-it-leads-to-a-spiral-of-annihilation-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:40:08","slug":"pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare-says-it-leads-to-a-spiral-of-annihilation-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare-says-it-leads-to-a-spiral-of-annihilation-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, says it leads to a spiral of annihilation : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/15\/g-s1-122205\/pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare\">Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, says it leads to a spiral of annihilation : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/15\/g-s1-122205\/pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/15\/g-s1-122205\/pope-decries-rise-of-ai-directed-warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 01:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV made a historic visit to Rome&#8217;s Sapienza University on May 14, 2026, the first papal visit since 2008.<\/li>\n<li>The pope denounced the increasing investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-tech weaponry, labeling these as leading the world into a &#8220;spiral of annihilation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>During his visit, he specifically called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine, highlighting the adverse effects of heightened military spending on education and healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV met with young Palestinian students who arrived in Italy through a recent &#8220;humanitarian corridor&#8221; and emphasized the importance of education and research in valuing life and promoting peace.<\/li>\n<li>He also underlined the need for better oversight of AI to prevent it from absolving humans of responsibility and exacerbating conflicts.<\/li>\n<li>The pope&#8217;s visit included greetings and conversations with Gazan students at the campus chapel and the main lecture hall of the university, founded in 1303.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, says it leads to a spiral of annihilation :&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4543x2555+0+237\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fba%2F74%2Fda8264a647b78481c45b99e86c73%2Fap26134318870069.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214205","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\/214205"}],"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=214205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214207,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214205\/revisions\/214207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}