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Embattled German chancellor chooses papal pageturner for his beach read

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With his popularity at historic lows, Friedrich Merz seeks spiritual guidance from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AIEurope live – latest updatesSummer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing pageturners – airport reads that wind up sandy and sunscreen-stained. Not so for Friedrich Merz’s holiday reading list.Germany’s embattled chancellor, who has […]

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Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi

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Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarityDo you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; it’s 2004 IPO prospectus

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

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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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Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose

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The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss itOften I’m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It’s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I worry

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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