Pope Leo Calls for 'Disarming' Artificial Intelligence in First Papal Encyclical

Pope Leo has called for the "disarming" of artificial intelligence in his first formal papal message, warning that concentrating AI data ownership in the private sector could lead to domination, exclusion, and death, according to Al Jazeera English.

Pope Leo stressed in the document — his first encyclical since taking office — that artificial intelligence technologies must not be left without constraints in the hands of private entities, demanding safeguards to prevent their use as a tool for exclusion or harm to humanity.

The encyclical comes amid wide international debate over AI governance, representing an official position by the Catholic Church on one of the most prominent technological challenges of the present era.