Pope Leo XIV warns AI is a threat to humanity and calls for a treaty

In a recent article, The Wall Street Journal drew attention to the fact that Pope Leo XIV considers artificial intelligence to be a threat to humanity.

In a recent speech to a group of cardinals, the newly appointed pope noted that recent developments in the field of AI are a challenge to “human dignity, justice, and labor.”

The Vatican wants the world’s countries to agree on a binding treaty that limits AI development, a direction that the tech giants of Silicon Valley absolutely don’t want happening—for obvious reasons.

This week, representatives of Anthropic, Cohere, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, and Palantir will be travelling to Rome to persuade the Catholic Church to embrace the new technology.