VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV will release on Monday his long-awaited manifesto on artificial intelligence (AI), a bid to address ethical and social challenges as the technology rapidly develops worldwide.
The US pope will attend the presentation of the “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity) encyclical at the Vatican in person — a first for the Catholic Church.
He will be joined not only by officials from the Holy See but experts including the co-founder of the American startup Anthropic, a key player in the booming AI landscape.
Anthropic is in a legal battle with the US military after refusing to change its internal policy prohibiting the use of its Claude model for lethal autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.
Leo has denounced the race for AI in the military field, saying that “delegating decisions concerning the life and death of human beings to machines” is a “destructive spiral.”
