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Pope Leo XIV\u2019s sweeping warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response across the American technology world, though a handful of leaders quickly embraced the Vatican\u2019s push for stronger government oversight while others blasted it as a threat to innovation.<\/p>\n

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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. He also criticized \u201cthe growing ease with which autonomous weapons systems can be deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHumanity \u2014 in all its grandeur and woundedness \u2014 must never be replaced or surpassed. We can embrace the technological progress that alleviates suffering and unlocks new possibilities, provided that we do not abandon the very essence of our humanity, namely the capacity for relationship and love,\u201d the pontiff wrote in \u201cMagnifica Humanitas,\u201d or Magnificent Humanity.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley\u2019s most high-profile AI executives \u2014 including Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg \u2014 did not immediately express public opinions on Leo\u2019s encyclical, his first since he was elected head of the Catholic Church. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Notably, Anthropic\u2019s top executives have for years advocated for more robust guardrails on the technology, and at least one of the company\u2019s key figures hailed Leo\u2019s message. Christopher Olah, a co-founder of the firm, appeared alongside Leo during the presentation of the encyclical and gave remarks welcoming \u201cmoral voices\u201d attempting to guide his industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more of the world \u2014 religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments, and indeed all people of good will \u2014 to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction,\u201d Olah said, according to a transcript of his remarks published online. \u201cWe need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yoshua Bengio, a professor and leading AI researcher who is frequently described as one of the \u201cgodfathers\u201d of the technology, expressed support for a major theme of Leo\u2019s proclamation: the importance of AI serving all people and \u201cthe common good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree with this sentiment by @Pontifex,\u201d Bengio posted on X, using the pontiff\u2019s account name. \u201cThe Vatican and other global institutions can and must play a role in the global dialogue on AI to raise public awareness and mobilize society for the challenges ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Jones, the head of faith outreach efforts at the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on avoiding extreme risks from transformative technologies, said Leo\u2019s message \u201cexemplifies the moral leadership so needed in an age when a handful of technology corporations race to replace humans in work, relationships and decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMagnifica Humanitas can serve as a rallying cry for the world to reassert unashamedly the primacy of humanity, in all its flawed glory, over our tools,\u201d Jones said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

Leo\u2019s warning about powerful technological tools becoming concentrated \u201cin the hands of a few\u201d appeared to find a receptive audience in Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who responded to an excerpt of the pope\u2019s missive with a one-word post: \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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 \u201cbits and pieces\u201d and summaries of the pope\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the church,\u201d Vance said in part.<\/p>\n

But not all technology industry figureheads agreed with Leo\u2019s policy prescriptions.<\/p>\n

David Sacks, a prolific venture capitalist and the White House\u2019s former AI and crypto czar, pushed back on the Vatican\u2019s appeal for more aggressive government regulation of private firms, which have largely avoided stringent rules under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens \u2014 as Orwell foretold in 1984,\u201d Sacks wrote on X, referring to George Orwell\u2019s allegorical novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho will guard the guardians?\u201d Sacks added in Latin and English.<\/p>\n

Eddy Lazzarin, a general partner at the influential venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, found the encyclical \u201clight on the theology of artificial intelligence, and thick in reiterating Catholic social doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe encyclical feels defensive,\u201d Lazzarin wrote on X. \u201cIt protects human dignity by saying intelligence was never the point, without really explaining what that means \u2014 or explaining what it means for us when intelligence is no longer uniquely human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pedro Domingos, a leading AI researcher and an emeritus computer science professor at the University of Washington, reacted with a pointed quip on X: \u201cThe Pope is infallible, and on AI he\u2019s infallibly wrong.\u201d In a subsequent email to NBC News, Domingos said he believed the pope\u2019s message was premised on \u201ca series of ignorant and wrong-headed things about AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leo, for example, cautioned that \u201cAI will concentrate power,\u201d Domingos said, \u201cwhen in fact it will spread it more widely than ever, just like the Internet before it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s attempt to sound the alarm on AI comes as the rapidly evolving technology faces mounting resistance across the U.S. In a national NBC News survey released in March, a majority of voters \u2014 57% \u2014 said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34% who said the opposite; a plurality of voters viewed AI negatively.<\/p>\n

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