{"id":215629,"date":"2026-05-18T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/pope-leo-will-unveil-new-ai-encyclical-with-top-anthropic-exec-playing-role\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:10:22","slug":"pope-leo-will-unveil-new-ai-encyclical-with-top-anthropic-exec-playing-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/pope-leo-will-unveil-new-ai-encyclical-with-top-anthropic-exec-playing-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Will Unveil New AI Encyclical\u2014With Top Anthropic Exec Playing Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/05\/18\/anthropic-official-will-join-pope-leo-for-new-ai-church-policy-statement\/\">Pope Leo Will Unveil New AI Encyclical\u2014With Top Anthropic Exec Playing Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/05\/18\/anthropic-official-will-join-pope-leo-for-new-ai-church-policy-statement\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/05\/18\/anthropic-official-will-join-pope-leo-for-new-ai-church-policy-statement\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 11:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical letter, &#8220;Magnifica humanitas,&#8221; on May 25th, focusing on &#8220;preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical will be discussed alongside multiple speakers, including Chris Olah, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, who has previously cautioned against the dangerous use of AI.<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican has created a study group on AI to examine its effects on human beings and the Church\u2019s concern for human dignity.<\/li>\n<li>Tensions exist between the Vatican, particularly Pope Leo XIV, and the Trump administration, which has criticized the Pope\u2019s anti-war and pro-Iranian stance.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic faces contention with the Trump administration over its opposition to the use of AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry, leading to threats of national security risks and lawsuits.<\/li>\n<li>In a recent speech, Pope Leo XIV warned against the use of AI in warfare, calling for better regulation to prevent human responsibility absolvement and conflict exacerbation.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Olah, with an estimated net worth of $7 billion, has criticized past Trump administration policies on immigration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo Will Unveil New AI Encyclical\u2014With Top Anthropic Exec Playing Role https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/05\/18\/anthropic-official-will-join-pope-leo-for-new-ai-church-policy-statement\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a0b295383c02b386c36bb9c\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&crop=2293,1290,x129,y106,safe&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215629","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\/215629"}],"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=215629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215631,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215629\/revisions\/215631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}