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Having spoken out <\/span><\/strong>forthe welfare of immigrants and against the war in Iran\u2014and drawn the ire of some American conservatives in the process\u2014Pope Leo XIV is now calling on the world to safeguard human dignity in the AI era.<\/p>

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His upcoming address on Monday, alongside a co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a collection of religious leaders and theologians, will serve to launch Leo\u2019s first encyclical, a papal letter sent to all bishops in the Catholic Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a speech last May just days after being elected, Leo framed the rise of AI as \u201canother industrial revolution\u201d where \u201cdevelopments in the field pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

And on Friday, the pope noted \u201cthe unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity and the damage caused when chatbots and other technologies exploit our need for human relationships\u201d at a Vatican conference on AI.<\/p>\n

In response to the announcement of Leo\u2019s letter, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah wrote last week on X that \u201cthe questions posed by AI are bigger than the AI community. We urgently need the world\u2014religions, civil society, academics, governments\u2014to participate in creating a positive outcome.\u201d Olah will be a speaker at the encyclical presentation.<\/p>\n

Anthropic, which develops the AI chatbot Claude, has advertised itself as an AI giant that values risk mitigation. In February, the company refused the Defense Department\u2019s demands to remove safety precautions on its technology, including mass surveillance of US citizens and autonomous weapons. The day after, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic\u2019s products.<\/p>

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But the relationship between the Vatican and Anthropic poses risks of laundering the AI company\u2019s image with religious and moral leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last fall, Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit\u2014compensating authors $3,000 for each of the 500,000 estimated books it was accused of training its AI technology on. In February, Anthropic said it was valued at $380 billion, putting it as a direct rival to Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI.<\/p>\n

According to a Friday report in Religion News Service, AI companies have been speaking with the Vatican as far back as 2016 about ethics\u2014including tech leaders like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who University of Arizona students booed at multiple times for drawing similarities between the rise of AI and the beneficial impact of the first computers).<\/p>\n

Massive investment in AI companies is continuing at a rapid pace despite its unpopularity among the public. As my colleague Sophie Hurwitz has tracked across the last couple of months, most Americans don\u2019t want data centers in their area, believe AI does more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and broad adoption of the technology will shrink the number of available jobs.<\/p>\n

Whether Pope Leo XIV\u2019s entrance into the AI ethics debate moves the needle remains to be seen. But it\u2019s not the first time a pope\u2019s encyclical has been injected straight into a roiling planetary debate: Pope Francis used a 2015 papal letter to call for action on climate change to prevent the \u201cunprecedented destruction of the ecosystem,\u201d arguing that our planet was starting to \u201clook more and more like an immense pile of filth.\u201d<\/p>

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