For First Time, Pope Leo To Join Anthropic To Launch Pontiff’s AI Encyclical On May 25

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• For First Time, Pope Leo To Join Anthropic To Launch Pontiff’s AI Encyclical On May 25 Published By, Last Updated: May 18, 2026, 19:44 IST Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic to unveil a historic AI focused encyclical, addressing warfare, human dignity, and US tensions over military use of AI.
• Pope Leo XIV created an in-house study group on artificial intelligence because of the acceleration in AI’s use, “its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole (and) the church’s concern for the dignity of every human being".
• (File pic/AP) For the first time, Pope Leo XIV and co-founder of artificial intelligence company, Anthropic, will launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25, the Vatican said on Monday.
• According to Associated Press, Leo, who has made AI a priority of his young pontificate, is greatly concerned about AI in warfare and has called for monitoring of how the...