{"id":23297,"date":"2026-05-30T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/americans-echo-pope-leos-concerns-about-ai-it-threatens-workers-privacy-and-human-life\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:37:15","slug":"americans-echo-pope-leos-concerns-about-ai-it-threatens-workers-privacy-and-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/americans-echo-pope-leos-concerns-about-ai-it-threatens-workers-privacy-and-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans echo Pope Leo\u2019s concerns about AI: \u2018It threatens workers, privacy and human life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope\u2019s encyclical warning about the risks of the technology<\/p>\n<p>In his first major papal text since assuming leadership of the Catholic church last year, Pope Leo issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/25\/pope-leo-encyclical-ai-artificial-intelligence-slavery\">stark warning<\/a> about the rise of artificial intelligence this week, denouncing the \u201cculture of power\u201d driving the AI age.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for the \u201cmost rigorous\u201d ethical constraints on AI \u2013 which he described as one of the greatest threats facing humanity today \u2013 the first US-born pope also warned of \u201cnew forms of slavery\u201d emerging through the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/30\/pope-leo-ai-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/251ab6693623af1fb75dc95def3df86246c8c7a1\/33_0_4585_3667\/master\/4585.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=00b529713fbdebb5d3e7432e287f05d7\" title=\"Americans echo Pope Leo\u2019s concerns about AI: \u2018It threatens workers, privacy and human life\u2019\" \/>Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope\u2019s encyclical warning about the risks of the technology<br \/>\nIn 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 \u201cculture of power\u201d driving the AI age.<br \/>\nCalling for the \u201cmost rigorous\u201d ethical constraints on AI \u2013 which he described as one of the greatest threats facing humanity today \u2013 the first US-born pope also warned of \u201cnew forms of slavery\u201d emerging through the digital economy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope\u2019s encyclical warning about the risks of the technology In 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/americans-echo-pope-leos-concerns-about-ai-it-threatens-workers-privacy-and-human-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans echo Pope Leo\u2019s concerns about AI: \u2018It threatens workers, privacy and human life\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23298,"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\/23297"}],"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=23297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}