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Comment by Pope Leo XIV

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Head of the Catholic Church
Artificial intelligence now demands to be "disarmed," freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion or death. [...] [What is needed are] international rules capable of slowing the technological arms race. AI Verified source (2026)
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Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation

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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 · 16h ago
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