Understanding Pope Leo’s AI encyclical @BrookingsInstitution
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Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical is a 42,000-word Vatican treatise that elevates "the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence." Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow and director for the Center for Technology Innovation, and Elham Tabassi, senior fellow and director for the AI and Emerging Tech Initiative, spoke to Valerie Wirtschafter, fellow in Foreign Policy, about the implications of this groundbreaking document.

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