Pope Leo XIV recently stood before the world and said that artificial intelligence needs to be "disarmed." Not regulated. Not monitored. Disarmed. Image generated by Gemini As Catholics, we are no strangers to the Church speaking boldly into the great challenges of the age. From slavery to colonialism, from the industrial revolution to the nuclear age, the Church has never shied away from asking the hardest moral questions when the world preferred not to. With his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — "Magnificent Humanity" — Pope Leo has done it again. What Is Artificial Intelligence, and Why Should Catholics Care? You may not work in technology. You may not own the latest smartphone or know what a neural network is. But artificial intelligence is already shaping the world your children and grandchildren will inherit. It influences what news you see, how medical decisions are made, how wars are fought, and increasingly, how power is concentrated in the hands of a very f...