Pope Leo XIV Weighs In on AI, Meta’s Guardrails Removed in Minutes, Uber Says AI Is Hard to Justify
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 26th, 2026. Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas — a nearly 42,000-word encyclical sent to the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion members — warning that AI is never neutral, that a handful of transnational companies already surpass the capacity of most governments, and that lethal decisions must never be delegated to an algorithm, with Anthropic researcher Chris Olah joining the Pope at the Vatican and admitting that researchers are seeing mysterious things inside AI models including states that resemble joy, fear, grief, and unease. The…
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