Pope Leo XIV said he is not in a state of panic about artificial intelligence but insisted that serious risks cannot be ignored. He devoted his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, to protecting human dignity amid technological change and described a Vatican commission created to coordinate AI use in Vatican City and to study its benefits and dangers. He urged governments, technology companies and civil society to cooperate on guardrails, regulation and ethical oversight, warning that competition and a race toward artificial general intelligence must not dictate development and that unsupervised agents and unchecked power could threaten humanity if left unaddressed.
On the flight back from France he also addressed several other pressing issues: he met survivors of clergy sexual abuse and acknowledged systemic failings in some church structures while reiterating the Church’s responsibility to accompany victims; he warned against the melding of far-right politics with Christianity in Germany; defended speaking on life issues such as opposing euthanasia; called for persistent diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine and criticized excessive military spending; and highlighted housing injustices, citing an elderly tenant in Madrid as an example of systemic failure. He confirmed World Youth Day in Korea 2027 as his next definite trip.
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