Pope Leo XIV apologizes for Church's slavery role, warns AI is a 'new form of enslavement'
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Summary
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, issues a formal apology for the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery while warning that artificial intelligence represents a "new form of enslavement" that must be disarmed. The Pope draws a direct parallel between past moral failures regarding slavery and the current dangers of unchecked AI development, arguing that the Church cannot credibly critique modern technological threats without first acknowledging its own historical complicity in human exploitation.
Key quotes
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For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon.
Leo calling AI one of the 'new forms of enslavement' would have rung hollow, if not hypocritical, had he not acknowledged the church's complicity in slavery.
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