{"id":219836,"date":"2026-05-25T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/church-vs-ai-pope-leo-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-artificial-intelligence-race\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:55:55","slug":"church-vs-ai-pope-leo-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-artificial-intelligence-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/church-vs-ai-pope-leo-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-artificial-intelligence-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Church vs AI: Pope Leo issues sweeping manifesto blasting artificial intelligence race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/magnificent-humanity-pope-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-ai-race-1779709844448\">Church vs AI: Pope Leo issues sweeping manifesto blasting artificial intelligence race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/magnificent-humanity-pope-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-ai-race-1779709844448\">https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/magnificent-humanity-pope-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-ai-race-1779709844448<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 08:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wionews.com\">www.wionews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV calls for the &#8220;disarming&#8221; of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that AI should not drive geopolitical or commercial dominance.<\/li>\n<li>He expressed concerns about the potential for new forms of slavery in the era of technological revolution, especially regarding AI-directed weaponry.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope stressed that AI technologies should ultimately serve humanity in a human-friendly manner, accessible to all and open to debate.<\/li>\n<li>He highlighted the hidden exploitation involved in AI&#8217;s development, from forced content moderation to environmental impacts and rare earth extraction by children.<\/li>\n<li>In a significant gesture, he apologized for the Vatican\u2019s historical role in the slave trade on behalf of the Church.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical, &#8220;Magnifica Humanitas,&#8221; released on May 15, coincides with the anniversary of an influential 1891 encyclical on social doctrine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church vs AI: Pope Leo issues sweeping manifesto blasting artificial intelligence race https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/magnificent-humanity-pope-issues-sweeping-manifesto-blasting-ai-race-1779709844448 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn1.wionews.com\/prod\/wion\/images\/2026\/20260413\/image-1776061048438.png?imwidth=1200&imheight=900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219836","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\/219836"}],"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=219836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219838,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219836\/revisions\/219838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}