{"id":23225,"date":"2026-05-25T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-denounces-culture-of-power-driving-rise-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:37:23","slug":"pope-leo-denounces-culture-of-power-driving-rise-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-denounces-culture-of-power-driving-rise-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo denounces \u2018culture of power\u2019 driving rise of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff calls for \u2018most rigorous\u2019 ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church\u2019s delay in condemning slavery<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo has denounced the \u201cculture of power\u201d driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the \u201cmost rigorous\u201d ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war.<\/p>\n<p>In his encyclical \u2013 the first major text on safeguarding humankind of his papacy \u2013 Leo, the first US-born pontiff, also apologised for the Catholic church\u2019s long delay in condemning slavery, describing it as \u201ca wound in Christian memory\u201d, while warning about the \u201cnew forms of slavery\u201d due to the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/25\/pope-leo-encyclical-ai-artificial-intelligence-slavery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1455602b89e6a85f8c3441dffaf127af28e25c05\/1799_0_5681_4545\/master\/5681.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=221140628e33791246f83a644bc97a21\" title=\"Pope Leo denounces \u2018culture of power\u2019 driving rise of AI\" \/>Pontiff calls for \u2018most rigorous\u2019 ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church\u2019s delay in condemning slavery<br \/>\nPope Leo has denounced the \u201cculture of power\u201d driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the \u201cmost rigorous\u201d ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war.<br \/>\nIn his encyclical \u2013 the first major text on safeguarding humankind of his papacy \u2013 Leo, the first US-born pontiff, also apologised for the Catholic church\u2019s long delay in condemning slavery, describing it as \u201ca wound in Christian memory\u201d, while warning about the \u201cnew forms of slavery\u201d due to the digital economy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff calls for \u2018most rigorous\u2019 ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church\u2019s delay in condemning slavery Pope Leo has denounced the \u201cculture of power\u201d driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the \u201cmost rigorous\u201d ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war. In &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/pope-leo-denounces-culture-of-power-driving-rise-of-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Leo denounces \u2018culture of power\u2019 driving rise of AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}