News Summary

• Pope Leo plans to release an encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence" A Quinnipiac poll earlier this year showed 80% of Americans are concerned about AI.
• Pope Leo, like many of us, is concerned that artificial intelligence is going to cause a lot of people to lose access to meaningful work, says Meghan Sullivan, an ethics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
• He's the leader of a global religion, a religion whose adherents are growing in the Global South in Africa and South America.