Pope Leo Warns That Artificial Intelligence Could Be “New Tower Of Babel”, Cautions Against AI In The Hands Of The Few

In his encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity) released today, Pope Leo XIV warns that artificial intelligence “threatens to normalize an anti-human vision” and strongly cautions against the concentration of the new technology in the hands of the few.

In the first sentence of the encyclical, the Pope writes, “Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”

“A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few,” the Pope writes as the pontiff calls for “an ethical code subject to shared standards of social justice.”

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