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Understanding Pope Leo's AI encyclical

The Current by The Brookings Institution

Jun 4, 202622:39News & Politics

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...

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Understanding Pope Leo's AI encyclical is an episode from The Current by The Brookings Institution. 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...

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