{"id":221196,"date":"2026-05-27T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:25:12","slug":"from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people\/","title":{"rendered":"From The National AFL-CIO: Pope Leo XIV\u2019s \u2018First Encyclical\u2019 On Artificial Intelligence \u2018Echoes the Fears &#038; Realities Of Working People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnylabortoday.com\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/labor-news-from-washington-d.c.\/from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people\/\">From The National AFL-CIO: Pope Leo XIV\u2019s \u2018First Encyclical\u2019 On Artificial Intelligence \u2018Echoes the Fears &#038; Realities Of Working People\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnylabortoday.com\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/labor-news-from-washington-d.c.\/from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people\/\">https:\/\/www.wnylabortoday.com\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/labor-news-from-washington-d.c.\/from-the-national-afl-cio-pope-leo-xiv-s-first-encyclical-on-artificial-intelligence-echoes-the-fears-realities-of-working-people\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 14:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wnylabortoday.com\">www.wnylabortoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s Focus on AI<\/strong>: Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first encyclical, <em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em>, addresses the moral and practical dangers of unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI), highlighting its threat to Working People.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Impact on Workers<\/strong>: Workers face surveilling, unfair dismissal, physical harm, and even death in workplaces that misuse AI without necessary safeguards and input from employees.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Urgency of Addressing AI Regulation<\/strong>: AI is seen as the biggest threat to Working People in contemporary times if not properly controlled; the Pope and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler echo concerns from working people worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Corporate Greed and &#8216;Culture of Power&#8217;<\/strong>: The encyclical criticizes the &#8216;culture of power&#8217; and corporate greed that prioritizes profit over the wellbeing of workers, leading to the dehumanizing use of untested AI technology.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Call for Responsible AI Practices<\/strong>: Pope Leo advocates for responsible planning, human and social impact assessments, and the inclusion of vulnerable populations \u2014 principles strongly aligned with Labor Movement goals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Labor Movement&#8217;s Response<\/strong>: The AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions call for defending the dignity and rights of Working People, supporting the Pope\u2019s call for responsible AI governance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Interconnectedness of Individual Futures<\/strong>: The encyclical emphasizes that the future of each individual is tied to the future of all, advocating for solidarity in addressing the impacts of AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The National AFL-CIO: Pope Leo XIV\u2019s \u2018First Encyclical\u2019 On Artificial Intelligence \u2018Echoes the Fears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.wnylabortoday.com\/clientuploads\/AI.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221196","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\/221196"}],"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=221196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221198,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221196\/revisions\/221198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}