Why the Pope wants to disarm AI

NPR. In May, pope Leo the fourteenth issued his very first encyclical. Catholic popes have been doing this for hundreds of years. Encyclicals are letters that they write to the Catholic church, often laying out their thoughts on social and moral issues. Kind of like album drops of the Catholic world. And Pope Leo convened a gathering at the Vatican for the release of his encyclical entitled Magnifica Humanitas, Magnificent Humanity. Your brothers and sisters, I want to thank all of you for being here today, for your interest. Popes get to choose their papal names, and Pope Leo the fourteenth picked his name to honor pope Leo the thirteenth. One hundred and thirty five years ago, my venerable predecessor, Leo the thirteenth, observed the situation of factory workers, their families uprooted, and new forms of poverty generated by rapid industrial transformation. He understood that the church could not remain distant. Pope Leo the fourteenth invoked his predecessor to warn against a different kind of technological upheaval. Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. This is The Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Whelan Wong. And I'm Darienne Woods. It's not often that we cover religion on this show, but we are in a moment where the pope himself is calling for AI to be reined in for the good of humanity, and he's directly addressing tech leaders. In fact, anthropic cofounder Chris Ola was invited to that event at the Vatican. So today on the show, we look at two populios more than a century apart and their takes on the economic and technological disruptions of their days. This message comes from Fisher Investments. Senior vice president Michael Hosmer shares one way their fiduciary duty comes to life when working with clients. We listen to our clients' goals, their objectives, their personal needs, and we build a plan that puts their needs first. They wanna know what we're truly thinking about and how that thinking is being built into our plan for them because that's how seriously we take our fiduciary responsibility. Learn more at fisherinvestments.com. Investing in securities involves the risk of loss. Support for this NPR podcast and the following message come from Carvana. Selling your car? Carvana has offers so good, they're almost inexplicable. Sell your car 100% online in minutes. Visit carvana.com today. This is Tanya Mosley, cohost of Fresh Air. When I interviewed the screenwriters of The Invite, Rashida Jones and Will McCormick, they called it a sex comedy that's not about sex. It's about wanting to be seen and heard and valued. Get a peek into how the script came to be on Fresh Air on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Starting in the late eighteen hundreds, an Italian pope named Leo the thirteenth wrote more than 80 encyclicals. Arguably, his most famous one was called Rerum Novarum, which translates to of new things. The new things at that time was socialism and social democratic labor parties. Workers in Europe and …