{"id":219764,"date":"2026-05-25T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:50:13","slug":"the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence\/202605\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence\">The Pope and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence\/202605\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence\/202605\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 10:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psychologytoday.com\">www.psychologytoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope, signed his inaugural encyclical, &#8220;Magnafica Humanitas,&#8221; on May 15th, linking his actions to the historical significance of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical focuses on the moral implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on human dignity amidst rising technological advances.<\/li>\n<li>A significant moment in the dialogue between faith and technology occurred when Pope Leo XIV stood beside Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, at the presentation of the encyclical.<\/li>\n<li>The global religious community, which remains large and influential, especially in the Global South, is increasingly relevant as it contemplates the ethical concerns around AI.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical emphasizes that AI reflects human choices and values, advocating for a careful consideration of the human values embedded in AI systems and warning of the potential erosion of natural human intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican\u2019s relationship with influential AI companies like Anthropic is described as a complex interplay of moral authority, technological power, geopolitical competition, and strategic restraint.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope\u2019s encyclical urges society to reflect on the kind of humans they want to remain and the type of intelligence\u2014both artificial and natural\u2014they choose to invest in.<\/li>\n<li>The framework SPIRIT provides a practical approach to balancing the use of AI with maintaining human values and self-awareness in a hybrid world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope and Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence\/202605\/the-pope-and-artificial-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-05-25 10:33:00 Source Domain: www.psychologytoday.com Pope Leo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn2.psychologytoday.com\/assets\/styles\/manual_crop_1_91_1_1528x800\/public\/teaser_image\/blog_entry\/2026-05\/pexels-engin-deniz-kopan-1829710573-29706230.jpg?itok=Zbp0mHo3","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219764","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\/219764"}],"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=219764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219766,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219764\/revisions\/219766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}