Important paper by Alan Wolff. The three WTO decisions he cites are after my time, but I well remember the original GATT provision. GATT and WTO have been stretched broadly to cover subjects they were never specifically designed for, but have the flexibility to address. AI may be another.
Steve Craven
Alan Wm. Wolff writes that there was already an echo of Pope Leo's message on AI to be found in what many would think a most unexpected place: the rules of the WTO.
If a globally coherent AI regulation framework emerges, the WTO could play a central role.
The main thesis of Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence") is that artificial intelligence (AI) must serve humani...
