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Comment by Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church
We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines—the so-called "alignment" of AI with human values—without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting them to shared standards of social justice.
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(2026)
23h ago
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Verification History
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Verified via web search. The exact quote appears in Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas," signed May 15, 2026 and released May 25, 2026. The source URL is the official Vatican site (vatican.va) which returned 403 to WebFetch but is independently confirmed via multiple Catholic news outlets (US Catholic, Ascension Press, EWTN Vatican, Catholic World Report). The year 2026 matches. Vote alignment: The quote challenges the sufficiency of merely "aligning" AI with human values and calls for openly discussing ethical frameworks under social justice standards. This is not a direct stance on whether AI alignment is technically solvable; he sidesteps the technical question to expand the ethical conversation, so "abstain" on the statement "AI alignment is solvable" is appropriate.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 21h ago
replying to Pope Leo XIV