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How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads | Peter Lewis

Both public figures have urged us to be active makers of the world we want our children to inheritJames Valentine meets the pope at the Pearly Gates. This is not the lead-in to a punchline delivered too soon, but a match made in heaven that could help those of us left behind preserve our humanity.While […]

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Anthropic’s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or ‘Vatican-washing?’

Experts say AI firm’s engagement with Vatican risks creating ‘feelgood’ discourse that lacks critical examinationWhy did Anthropic’s founder sit beside the pope during a warning about AI?In the first major written teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV took artificial intelligence to task. The pontiff delineated the technology’s most concerning threats to humanity: replacing workers,

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Americans echo Pope Leo’s concerns about AI: ‘It threatens workers, privacy and human life’

Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope’s encyclical warning about the risks of the technologyIn his first major papal text since assuming leadership of the Catholic church last year, Pope Leo issued a stark warning about the rise of artificial intelligence this week, denouncing the “culture

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People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?

We’d like to hear what Americans think about the pope’s latest remarks criticizing the rapid development of AIThe first American pope has made waves since taking the position. However, after his latest remarks – that AI could make civilization less human and a plea for governments globally to actively slow AI development – people in

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The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial

In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debateWhen the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time. In the 1891 encyclical,

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Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI

Pontiff calls for ‘most rigorous’ ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slaveryPope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the “most rigorous” ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war.In his encyclical

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Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder

The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican saysIn the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.The Chicago-born pontiff will present the document, known as an encyclical, at the Vatican next week during an event attended

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Trump tests his luck with the religious right amid feud with pope and AI Jesus posts

Trump appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters. Will it come back to bite him in the midterms?Donald Trump’s depiction of himself as Jesus Christ and recent spat with Pope Leo XIV could come back to bite him and the Republican party in the midterm elections, according to experts, with some newly

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