Overview

• Pope Leo XIV has positioned AI as a defining moral challenge for his papacy by invoking church teachings on human dignity, justice and labor.
• The Vatican summit will bring together executives from IBM, Cohere, Anthropic and Palantir to discuss ethical AI governance.
• Church leaders are advocating for an international treaty that would establish a superior authority to oversee AI development and prevent power concentration.
• Microsoft President Brad Smith is slated to meet Vatican officials this month and Google is negotiating a private audience with the pope.
• Experts warn that up to 80 percent of jobs could be transformed by AI by 2050, fueling calls for robust oversight to protect workers.