Summary

Pope Leo XIV warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and lobbied for more safeguards with the technology in the pontiff’s first encyclical. In “ Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, ” published Monday, the first American-born pope wrote that AI technology must be used for “the common good” as opposed to profit, while still “remaining human.”

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