{"id":219617,"date":"2026-05-25T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-calls-for-artificial-intelligence-to-be-disarmed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:30:14","slug":"pope-calls-for-artificial-intelligence-to-be-disarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-calls-for-artificial-intelligence-to-be-disarmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope calls for artificial intelligence to be &#8216;disarmed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2026\/0525\/1575125-pope-encyclical\/\">Pope calls for artificial intelligence to be &#8216;disarmed&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2026\/0525\/1575125-pope-encyclical\/\">https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2026\/0525\/1575125-pope-encyclical\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 06:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rte.ie\">www.rte.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV has written an encyclical titled &#8220;Magnifica Humanitas&#8221; that calls for artificial intelligence to be made &#8220;human-friendly&#8221; and warns against the dangers of an escalating competition for AI dominance.<\/li>\n<li>The pontiff addressed concerns over &#8220;new forms of slavery,&#8221; such as exploitative labor conditions behind AI and technology production, calling for stronger regulation and ethical constraints.<\/li>\n<li>He criticized the current &#8220;race for more powerful algorithms and larger datasets,&#8221; emphasizing the need for more active political involvement to slow the accelerating pace of AI growth.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV repudiated the &#8220;just war&#8221; theory, stating that the use of force and violence in wars has disastrous consequences and is outdated.<\/li>\n<li>He called for ethical constraints in any use of AI in warfare and explicitly said it is &#8220;not permissible&#8221; to entrust AI systems with lethal decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, he expressed regret for the Church\u2019s delayed condemnation of transatlantic slavery, apologizing in the name of the Church.<\/li>\n<li>The pope urged world leaders to address AI risks collaboratively, invoking the biblical story of the Tower of Babel as a warning against human overreaching without divine blessing.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical highlighted the moral responsibility of every individual to participate in actions that can make a difference in ensuring a humane development of AI technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope calls for artificial intelligence to be &#8216;disarmed&#8217; https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2026\/0525\/1575125-pope-encyclical\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-25 06:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/images\/00246b78-1600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219617","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\/219617"}],"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=219617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219619,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219617\/revisions\/219619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}