{"id":219782,"date":"2026-05-25T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution-national-catholic-register\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:25:12","slug":"pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution-national-catholic-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution-national-catholic-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Unveils His Encyclical: AI Has \u2018Even Greater Consequences\u2019 Than Industrial Revolution| National Catholic Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution\">Pope Leo Unveils His Encyclical: AI Has \u2018Even Greater Consequences\u2019 Than Industrial Revolution| National Catholic Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution\">https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/pope-leo-unveils-his-encyclical-ai-has-even-greater-consequences-than-industrial-revolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 11:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ncregister.com\">www.ncregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV personally attended the presentation of his first encyclical, &#8220;Magnifica Humanitas,&#8221; in Vatican City, a rare uncustomary gesture.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic&#8217;s co-founder, Christopher Olah, attended and expressed gratitude for the Church&#8217;s engagement in ethics surrounding AI.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope emphasized the great impact of new technologies, particularly AI, on various aspects of human life and emphasized the need for moral considerations in their development.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV drew a parallel between the impact of AI and the Industrial Revolution while stressing on the evolving nature of war technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical aims to reaffirm human values in a technologically driven society and calls for ethical control and scrutiny over autonomous weapons and biased algorithms.<\/li>\n<li>The drafting process of the encyclical included listening sessions with scientists, engineers, politicians, parents, teachers, and voices concerned about technological misuse.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope likened the moral disarmament of AI to the long-standing efforts for nuclear disarmament, emphasizing the need for public control and moral guidance in technological advancements.<\/li>\n<li>The presentation was attended by prominent figures including Cardinals and theologians who emphasized the role of different sectors in addressing technological challenges ethically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo Unveils His Encyclical: AI Has \u2018Even Greater Consequences\u2019 Than Industrial Revolution| National Catholic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/pb-ncregister\/swp\/hv9hms\/media\/2026052510050_293477650d4286992959ca09a6f048b5b3fdc19d763bb9d410546ec4dba47f8d.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219782","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\/219782"}],"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=219782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219784,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219782\/revisions\/219784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}