{"id":219810,"date":"2026-05-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-disarm-ai-to-stop-it-dominating-humanity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:05:28","slug":"pope-leo-disarm-ai-to-stop-it-dominating-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-disarm-ai-to-stop-it-dominating-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo: Disarm AI to stop it dominating humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/europe\/article\/pope-leo-ai-manifesto-anthropic-6d9h8blxj\">Pope Leo: Disarm AI to stop it dominating humanity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/europe\/article\/pope-leo-ai-manifesto-anthropic-6d9h8blxj\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/europe\/article\/pope-leo-ai-manifesto-anthropic-6d9h8blxj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thetimes.com\">www.thetimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Francis criticizes AI for accelerating wars, job losses, and dominating humanity, stating it must be &#8220;disarmed&#8221; to prevent these outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>In his encyclical &#8220;Magnafica humanitas,&#8221; the Pope advocates for an ethical code to govern AI, emphasizing that humanity must never be replaced or surpassed by technology.<\/li>\n<li>He calls for robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users, and a political system that upholds responsibility, rather than leaving AI governance to big tech firms.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope is wary of AI companies inserting their algorithms into battlefield chains that might reduce conflicts to data and lower the threshold for violence.<\/li>\n<li>He argues that AI should prioritize the dignity of each person and common good over profit, criticizing the trend of AI companies winning military contracts.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical warns against transhumanism and posthumanism, which attempt to overcome human limitations through technology, in contrast to Christian teachings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo: Disarm AI to stop it dominating humanity https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/europe\/article\/pope-leo-ai-manifesto-anthropic-6d9h8blxj Publish Date: 2026-05-25 05:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/imageserver\/image\/0d4da053-abae-4fb0-a453-8298d9351f0f.jpg?strip=all&format=webp&resize=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219810"}],"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=219810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219814,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219810\/revisions\/219814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}