{"id":87056,"date":"2026-09-29T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87056"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:35:33","slug":"pope-on-a-i-it-isnt-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-on-a-i-it-isnt-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope On A.I.: &#8216;It Isn&#8217;t Fake News&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span> said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not \u201cfake news\u201d and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.\u00a0Leo, who dedicated his <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-tech-trump-vatican-anthropic-d92d0108730d146baa46da041b8523da\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">first encyclical to AI<\/a><\/span> and protecting humanity in its wake, was asked during a press conference about what the United States and China especially should be doing to prevent AI from posing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-ai-artificial-intelligence-iran-mideast-gaza-171df0329f7b6645124900c1e038c1f6\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">catastrophic risks to humanity.<\/a><\/span> U.S. President Donald Trump has called concerns about AI going <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ai-guardrails-data-centers-b85df16775ff7e9611a456b061a0e4b9\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">rogue a \u201choax.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u201cThis is a problem that, I think, we need to sit down and talk about,\u201d the American Pope told reporters returning home from France. \u201cWe can\u2019t just sit back and pretend nothing is going to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not \u201cfake news\u201d and should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87058,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87056\/revisions\/87058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}