The pope stood with a major AI leader to apologize and raise concerns about AI as causing a new form of dehumanization that requires social responsibility, intervention and regulation. He also made a point of quoting Tolkien, which some AI leaders have co-opted in pseudo-religious ways.
Erica Weintraub Austin
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
