The Vatican has made a frontal challenge to the Trump administration’s approach to technology.

As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, tech firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case for AI inside the Vatican.

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…

The pontiff's first encyclical set up another potential flash point with the Trump administration, which has worked aggressively to deregulate AI development.

Pope Leo called for the ‘disarming’ of artificial intelligence, and warned of ‘new forms of slavery’ behind its rise.

Pope Leo XIV called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence in his first encyclical. He warned that the rapidly expanding technology risks fuelling warfare, exploitation…

The pontiff warns that artificial intelligence could exacerbate inequality, deepen social fragmentation and weaken moral responsibility unless it is constrained.

Why the Catholic Church is concerned about Big Tech.

Pope Leo XIV has warned that 'humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power' in his first major text amid his deepening rift with US President Donald Trump

Pope Leo XIV Escalates AI Warnings—Says Tech Giants Cannot Control Algorithms And Data

Worries change may be ‘governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable’

Leo argues the artificial intelligence revolution must be bent towards the dignity of every human. Donald Trump, by contrast, wants to let it rip.

Leo XIV warned against building a ‘new Tower of Babel’ with AI

The pontiff presented his encyclical at the Vatican alongside AI experts.

After a lot of tech-CEO pontificating, the actual pontiff weighs in.

In an interview Tuesday with NBC News, the vice president said he is glad the pope tackled the topic. Vance also discussed why X remains off his phone after he deleted it for Lent.

As the technology's reputation wobbles, the pope joins a chorus of AI watchers calling out its potential harms and working with the industry to mitigate them.

US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday praised Pope Leo XIV's manifesto warning of the risks of artificial intelligence, calling it "profound" and a necessary act of moral…

Though J.D. Vance found the “bits and pieces” he read to be “very profound.”

Pope Leo XIV’s AI warning shows split among Trump officials as the White House resists new guardrails, upping stakes with Catholic voters and Silicon Valley allies.

WASHINGTON, United States: US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday praised Pope Leo XIV’s manifesto warning of the risks of artificial intelligence, calling it “profound” and a…