Pope Leo XIV Calls for AI Governance

A central concern in current discussions of artificial intelligence is keeping its development accountable to human judgment rather than treating machines as people or autonomous authorities. Pope Leo XIV argues that AI lacks subjective experience and calls for international action to govern AI and ban lethal autonomous weapons. A technical proposal called Concordat seeks to enforce safety rules for AI agents by limiting the tools they can use at each stage, and reported tests found no unauthorized changes. Scholars at an Indian seminar explored how philosophical traditions and cultural and environmental knowledge could support fair and inclusive AI. A new book and podcast examine technology leaders’ long-running drive to build artificial general intelligence and concerns about its risks.