Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be ¡°disarmed¡± to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should regulate a technology that is reshaping the world.
In a landmark address to the Catholic Church, which included a video presentation with images of the Industrial Revolution, World War II and the Berlin Wall falling, the pope called for making AI more ¡°human-friendly.¡± He said the technology needs to be freed from monopolistic control, shifting away from using it to achieve geopolitical or commercial gains.
¡°To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,¡± the pope said Monday in his new encyclical to the faithful. ¡°To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.¡±
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