70 岁的 Leo XIV 特别警告，任何演算法都不能使战争在道德上正当；AI 会让冲突更快发生、也更不具人格性，还可能被用来选定军事攻击目标或加剧银行体系风险。他同时把 AI 的冲击连结到工人与劳动市场，呼应 Leo XIII 在 19 世纪工业革命期间对《Rerum Novarum》的回应。
文章也指出，Anthropic PBC 推出的 Mythos 工具近月引发全球焦虑，Vatican 却邀请其共同创办人 Christopher Olah 参与讨论；Olah 呼吁宗教团体、学界、政府与公民社会共同发声，让实验室接受批评与道德约束。另一方面，JD Vance、Peter Thiel 与 Vatican 顾问 Father Paolo Benanti 的交锋，以及 Leo 与 Trump 在伊朗战争议题上的分歧，都显示 AI 监管已与更广泛的政治与意识形态冲突交织。
Pope Leo XIV called for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” in a landmark encyclical, arguing that AI must become more “human-friendly,” be freed from monopolistic control, and not be used for geopolitical or commercial gain. The document, Magnifica humanitas, is his most consequential act since becoming leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics a year ago, and it places him in tension with Donald Trump’s preference for lighter regulation.
The 70-year-old pope warned that no algorithm can make war morally acceptable. He said AI can accelerate conflict and make it more impersonal, while also being used to pick military targets or worsen risks to banking systems. His remarks extend the Church’s concern that technology should not dictate what matters or reduce human beings to cogs in a system.
The report links this debate to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos tool, which has heightened global anxiety over unregulated AI, and to the Vatican’s invitation to co-founder Christopher Olah. Olah urged religious communities, scholars, governments, and civil society to push events in a better direction. The episode also highlights broader political friction involving JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Father Paolo Benanti, and Leo’s earlier disputes with Trump over Iran.