Calling AI a threat to 'human dignity, justice and labor,' Pope Leo XIV of all people takes on Big Tech

As a tech journalist, I'm far from heartened by the AI feeding frenzy we're seeing. Besides the Trump administration rolling back Biden-era guardrails and handing OpenAI a frankly eye-watering amount of money via various contracts, the UK government attempted five times to pass a bill (which has since passed) that allows AI developers to largely scrape whatever copyrighted material they like. With patrons of the arts like this, who needs enemies? So, imagine my surprise when none other than the...