{"id":239912,"date":"2026-07-03T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:20:13","slug":"billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Peter Thiel Attacks Pope\u2019s AI Stance, Says He\u2019s \u2018Working For Chinese Communists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/\">Billionaire Peter Thiel Attacks Pope\u2019s AI Stance, Says He\u2019s \u2018Working For Chinese Communists\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-03 07:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly, here are the key points from the given article in a summarized and respectful manner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Controversial Remarks by Peter Thiel:<\/strong> During a speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, billionaire and entrepreneur Peter Thiel criticized Pope Leo XIV over his stance on artificial intelligence regulation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Argument on AI Regulation:<\/strong> Thiel argued that the Vatican&#8217;s calls for the regulation of artificial intelligence might favor China, because Chinese leaders are less likely to heed the Pope\u2019s appeal, suggesting this positions Leo as an agent of \u201cthe Chinese Communists.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Audience Reaction:<\/strong> Thiel\u2019s remarks reportedly caused laughter from the audience during the event.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Pope&#8217;s Encyclical on AI:<\/strong> Pope Leo XIV warned in his first encyclical, \u201cMagnifica Humanitas,\u201d about the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence, mass automation, and technology advancing without respect for human dignity and morality. He emphasized that the &#8220;pursuit of profits must not lead to choices that systematically sacrifice jobs&#8221; and cautioned against the use of AI to create &#8220;distorted narratives&#8221; and autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Conflict Between Pope and U.S. Leadership:<\/strong> The Pope has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration&#8217;s policies, which led to a public feud that included Trump personally attacking the Pope on social media, accusing him of being weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more in-depth information, you might want to refer to the original article from CNN or official statements from the Aspen Ideas Festival.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Peter Thiel Attacks Pope\u2019s AI Stance, Says He\u2019s \u2018Working For Chinese Communists\u2019 https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2026\/07\/03\/billionaire-peter-thiel-attacks-popes-ai-stance-says-hes-working-for-chinese-communists\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a4797c28d8ab60fe9e002bf\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-239912","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\/239912"}],"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=239912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239914,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239912\/revisions\/239914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}