Pope Leo XIV: AI can never be a person; its future depends on our choices

Pope Leo XIV told participants in a Vatican conference on the future of AI that machines are tools, not persons, and warned against proposals to grant AI rights or legal personhood, which he said could obscure human responsibility. Drawing on his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, he argued AI's future depends on present choices, with reliable human-serving systems valued above powerful but uncontrollable ones.