{"id":219746,"date":"2026-05-25T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/in-first-encyclical-pope-leo-warns-against-unrestrained-ai-in-hands-of-mega-rich-few\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:25:10","slug":"in-first-encyclical-pope-leo-warns-against-unrestrained-ai-in-hands-of-mega-rich-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/in-first-encyclical-pope-leo-warns-against-unrestrained-ai-in-hands-of-mega-rich-few\/","title":{"rendered":"In First Encyclical, Pope Leo Warns Against Unrestrained AI in Hands of Mega-Rich Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/pope-leo-artificial-intelligence\">In First Encyclical, Pope Leo Warns Against Unrestrained AI in Hands of Mega-Rich Few<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/pope-leo-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/pope-leo-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 10:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.commondreams.org\">www.commondreams.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV released a 42,000-word encyclical titled <em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em>, calling for government regulation of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>The pope emphasized that AI, if left unregulated, risks increasing the disparity between the powerful few and the many, potentially leading to dehumanization, massive job loss, and environmental degradation.<\/li>\n<li>He highlighted the risk that AI could amplify the influence of small, wealthy groups, undermining social justice and democracy.<\/li>\n<li>Leo warned against using AI for military purposes, arguing that it can dehumanize conflict and make violence more likely.<\/li>\n<li>The pope noted that while technological advancements, including AI, can benefit humanity, they should be oriented towards the common good to avoid harmful consequences.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical concluded by posing critical questions about the direction of technology and its alignment with human goals and communal welfare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In First Encyclical, Pope Leo Warns Against Unrestrained AI in Hands of Mega-Rich Few https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/pope-leo-artificial-intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/image.jpg?id=66804277&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C416%2C0%2C417","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219746","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\/219746"}],"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=219746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219748,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219746\/revisions\/219748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}