Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

Pope Leo XIV—who's become a remarkably familiar presence in the pages of PC Gamer of late—has once again taken to the pulpit to exhort us to be careful about this "AI" nonsense. In a message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications (which is actually on May 17), the Bishop of Rome implored humanity to take better care of its face and voice in our era of AI-driven deviltry.

"Faces and voices are sacred," wrote the Pope. "God, who created us in his image and likeness, gave them to us...