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Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and successor to the late Pope Francis, has made artificial intelligence (AI) a central concern of his pontificate. In a series of speeches and documents, he warns that AI carries a “shadow of evil,” echoing fears expressed during the Industrial Revolution by his namesake, Pope Leo XIII. Leo XIII, who served at the end of the 19th century, was known as the “Pope of the Workers” and issued the landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum in 1891, defending labor rights, fair wages, and social justice. Similarly, Pope Leo XIV sees AI as the new industrial upheaval. “In our own day, the church offers to everyone the treasury […]