Stop AI - Pause AI - Control AI?

In the Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas  (Leo XIV, 15 May 2026), Pope Leo XIV warns that “entrusting an algorithm in practice with the power to select who is worthy or not, without anyone bearing responsibility for that judgment, is to hand over the task of redefining the boundaries of human possibilities” and that “we cannot consider AI to be morally neutral.” (Sections 102–111, Responsibility, Transparency and the Governance of AI).

This perspective is explored in greater depth in a recent article published by La Verità, which examines three prominent global movements—Stop AI, Pause AI, and Control AI—and features an interview with UOI's Alberto Giubilini in which he discusses the perils of AI and AI regulations, following anti-AI protests and the Pope’s warnings.

I do not believe that AI threatens our ability to decide. There are other problems: the loss of individual and collective creativity, the risk of uniformity of thought when AI enters the sphere of moral questions, and the (false) sense of reduced responsibility that may arise when people delegate tasks to AI.

Alberto Giubilini
 

Links

La Verità (newspaper) 15 June 2026, «Stop», «Pause» e «Control» I tre movimenti mondiali in lotta contro l’IA senza freni (paywall; in Italian) or see PDF (in Italian)

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (LEO PP. XIV, 15 May 2026)