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Home » Pope Leo vs AI: Pontiff sounds alarm over the ‘culture of power’ driving the tech race
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Pope Leo vs AI: Pontiff sounds alarm over the ‘culture of power’ driving the tech race

By Press RoomMay 27, 20261 Min Read
Pope Leo vs AI: Pontiff sounds alarm over the ‘culture of power’ driving the tech race
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The document, dated May 15, was published 145-years after a former Pope Leo wrote his own warning of the advent of the 19th century industrial revolution.

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Pope Leo XIV used his encyclical – a document communicating the position of the Catholic Church to its 1.4 billion followers – to denounce the “culture of power” driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare.

So is there anyway way to salve the biggest technological advancement of the 21st century? Our correspondent Angela Skujins explains.

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