{"id":220881,"date":"2026-05-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-the-pope-said-about-a-i\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:05:12","slug":"what-the-pope-said-about-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/what-the-pope-said-about-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Pope Said About A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai\">What the Pope Said About A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newyorker.com\">www.newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo, the first American pontiff, takes a strong stand against the unchecked dominance of artificial intelligence companies in his encyclical addressing this vital matter.<\/li>\n<li>He defends the Vatican&#8217;s right to comment on worldly issues, asserting that the Church is involved in current historical contexts.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo warns against the &#8220;Babel syndrome,&#8221; cautioning against the idolatry of profit, uniformity, and the overgeneralization of digital language.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope emphasizes the fundamental dignity of individuals and advocates for the principles of the common good within the Church\u2019s Social Doctrine.<\/li>\n<li>While acknowledging the benefits of technology, he is critical of the lack of regulation concerning artificial intelligence, which poses risks to human dignity, equality, freedom, and democratic governance.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI by ensuring it is human-friendly, democratically controlled, and free from monopolistic dominance.<\/li>\n<li>His concerns echo long-standing critiques of AI and automation in the United States, aligning with past warnings about the potential threats to human purpose and freedom.<\/li>\n<li>The encyclical insists that the problem with AI is not the technology itself, but the misapplication and oversight in its development and deployment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Pope Said About A.I. https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/the-lede\/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai Publish Date: 2026-05-27 06:00:00 Source Domain: www.newyorker.com Pope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/6a15db7b1f527452d1a33c45\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/Leopore-Leo-2026-05-25T103726Z_1756368399_RC2AGLAHUU9A_RTRMADP_3_POPE-ENCYCLICAL-PRESENTATION.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220881","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\/220881"}],"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=220881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220883,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220881\/revisions\/220883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}