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Pope Leo XIV lashes out in his first major text against “the new forms of slavery” behind the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and calls for “more sustainable technological solutions in order to reduce the impact on the environment.”
Pope Leo XIV criticizes in his first major text “the new forms of slavery” behind the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and calls for “more sustainable technological solutions to reduce the impact on the environment.”
“In certain regions of the world, teenagers and children work in dangerous conditions to crush the materials from which rare earths are extracted. Bodies marked, mutilated, worn out so that the flow of computation does not stop,” he denounces in his encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), published on Monday.Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payments, and profiling techniques to recruit, control, and move trafficking victims, often minors, turning men and women into +data+ to track and +packages+ to move.
