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Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response across the American
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Key facts
- Vice President JD Vance, a practicing Catholic who once worked at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mithril Capital, told NBC News in a phone interview Tuesday that he had scanned “bits
- Silicon Valley’s most high-profile AI executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, did not immediately express public opinions on Leo’s encyclical, his first since he was elected
- In a roughly 42,300-word encyclical published Monday, Leo called for more regulation of the private companies powering the AI boom, stronger protections for workers facing economic disruption
- David Sacks, a prolific venture capitalist and the White House’s former AI and crypto czar, pushed back on the Vatican’s appeal for more aggressive government regulation of private firms
Summary
Pope Leo XIV’s sweeping warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response across the American technology world, though a handful of industry leaders quickly embraced the Vatican’s push for stronger government oversight while others blasted it as a threat to innovation. In a roughly 42,300-word encyclical published Monday, Leo called for more regulation of the private companies powering the AI boom, stronger protections for workers facing economic disruption and measures to protect people from fake AI-generated information. “Humanity, in all its grandeur and woundedness, must never be replaced or surpassed. Silicon Valley’s most high-profile AI executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, did not immediately express public opinions on Leo’s encyclical, his first since he was elected head of the Catholic Church. Notably, Anthropic’s top executives have for years advocated for more robust guardrails on the technology, and at least one of the company’s key figures hailed Leo’s message.