‘Artificial Intelligence Must Be Disarmed’ — Pope Leo Calls Out the Tech Giants Turning AI Into an ‘Instrument of Domination, Exclusion, and Death’

Artificial intelligence has become Wall Street’s favorite growth story. Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, training AI models and racing to secure an edge in what many executives see as the next major technological revolution. Pope Leo XIV is urging the world to pause long enough to ask a different question: Who ultimately benefits from all that power?

In his first major encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo delivered one of the strongest warnings yet about the risks of artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology must remain a tool that serves humanity rather than controls it.