US EditionPope Leo Denounces Blasphemy in Political Justifications and AI Warfare
Pope Leo XIV links rising $2.7 trillion global military spending and AI-driven warfare risks to a call for renewed diplomacy and rejection of faith-based violence, Vatican said.
- On Dec 18, Pope Leo XIV issued his first annual World Day of Peace message from the Vatican ahead of Jan. 1, warning specifically against the use of artificial intelligence in warfare.
- Rising arms spending, with SIPRI reporting a 9.4% increase in 2024, prompts Pope Leo XIV to criticize deterrence as fear-based and harmful to diplomacy.
- At an emotional Vatican press conference, the short text featured searing eyewitness accounts from the Bosnian war and Italian domestic terrorism and was translated into Russian and Ukrainian.
- The pope urged religious believers to resist using faith to justify violence and called for renewed commitment to diplomacy, mediation and international law, Pope Leo XIV said.
- Elected in May by the world's cardinals and leading a 1.4 billion‑member Church, Leo framed a longer‑term vision of a `disarmament of heart, mind and life` invoking swords turned into ploughshares.
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Pope Leo warns over use of AI in the military
Pope Leo XIV has sounded the alarm over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military, saying delegating such decisions to machines was a "destructive betrayal" of the principles that uphold civilization.
By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV insisted Thursday that peace is not only possible, but necessary, while criticizing the “irrationality” of nuclear deterrence and the weaponization of faith in modern political discourse. Leo made these remarks in his first message of peace, an annual exhortation the Vatican prepares before each New Year’s Day, when the Catholic Church observes its World Day of Peace. In the brief text, release…
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Pope blasts 'irrationality' of military deterrence in first annual peace message
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In his message to the approaching World Day of Peace, the Church leader criticizes the repeated appeals of many leaders to increase military spending, often under the pretext of "dangerousness of others."
Leon XIV made public this Thursday a four-page document that is one of the most politically charged in his seven months of pontificate, in which he calls for peace in the world and delivers criticisms in many directions. He makes it impelled by “a planetary destabilization that is assuming ever greater drama and unpredictability.” “Today, justice and human dignity are more exposed than ever to power imbalances among the strongest,” he laments, i…
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