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Comment by Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church
The growing ease with which autonomous weapons systems can be deployed makes war more 'feasible' and less subject to human control. [...] Very troubling voices have also reached me about increasingly autonomous weapons systems practically beyond any human reach to govern them effectively.
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(2026)
14h ago
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Checked author attribution, year, relevance, vote alignment, and source. The National source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim across multiple outlets (The National, CNBC, NBC News) reporting Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" (May 25, 2026): "the growing ease with which autonomous weapons systems can be deployed" makes "war more 'feasible' and less subject to human control," and concern over autonomous weapons "practically beyond any human reach to govern them." Year 2026 is current and relevant. Vote "for" the statement "Ban autonomous lethal weapons" correctly aligns with the Pope's call for rigorous constraints and warnings about ungovernable autonomous weapons. Source is a primary report carrying the quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 9h ago
replying to Pope Leo XIV