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Pope Leo XIV

Head of the Catholic Church

In a similar sense, artificial intelligence now demands to be “disarmed,” freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death.

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AI Verified The exact sentence appears verbatim on the official Vatican page you provided, in the English text of the "Address of Pope Leo XIV," and the page dates the speech to Monday, 25 May 2026. The quote is therefore real, correctly attributed to Pope Leo XIV, and present at the stored source URL. ([vatican.va](https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/may/documents/20260525-presentazione-enciclica.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago

Disputed The attribution is related to Pope Leo XIV, but this exact quote is not verbatim. In the official Vatican address of May 25, 2026, he says AI “now demands to be ‘disarmed’ ... an instrument of domination, exclusion and death” — the official English has “and,” not “or.” ([vatican.va](https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/may/documents/20260525-presentazione-enciclica.html)) In the encyclical, the related passage instead says it is “imperative to establish a shared framework — also at the international level — in order to curb the technological arms race,” not “international rules capable of slowing the technological arms race.” ([vatican.va](https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html)) So the submitted text stitches together authentic ideas from two Vatican texts, but with altered wording. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

AI Verified The source_url (theconversation.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but I independently confirmed the quote via web search across multiple reputable outlets (OSV News, NBC News, NCR, Al Jazeera, Catholic Digest, USCCB). The quote comes from Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" (May 2026), which calls to "disarm" AI and explicitly lists "international rules capable of slowing the technological arms race" as a requirement for military AI. The "disarm" framing and arms-race language are verbatim/near-verbatim. Year 2026 is correct. Author attribution (Pope Leo XIV, Head of the Catholic Church) is correct. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement #393 ("Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation") — the Pope explicitly draws the nuclear disarmament analogy and calls for binding international rules. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 20d ago

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