When a superpower abdicates its regulatory authority, who fills the void? Days after President Trump scrapped a foundational AI safety executive order under pressure from Silicon Valley, an unexpected heavyweight intervened. Pope Leo XIV just released Magnifica Humanitas, a sweeping encyclical demanding the global “disarmament” of artificial intelligence.

This is a calculated assault on tech oligarchy. As Washington cedes governance to monopolies to outpace China, the Church is repositioning its massive base against technological feudalism. By hosting Anthropic’s Christopher Olah at the launch, the Vatican brilliantly exploited fractures within Big Tech, separating deregulatory capitalists from safety-conscious engineers.

Digital sovereignty is now an asymmetric war between private capital and ancient institutional authority. As Pope Leo explicitly warned, “To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern”.

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