ethics

OpenAI’s Altman calls religious views of AI a safety risk

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Saturday that he is "very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue." He made the remarks…

Anthropic lobbied Vatican on AI consciousness, NYT reports

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah spent more than a year asking religious scholars to take seriously the idea that the company's Claude models could be conscious. He then pressed Pope Leo XIV's advisers to keep that possibility open, after an advance…

Over 60 nations call for ethical AI rules at UNESCO forum in Riyadh

The Fourth UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence opened in Riyadh on Tuesday, drawing ministers and senior officials from more than 60 countries to confront the challenges of governing a technology that even its creators warn may…

Pope Leo XIV says AI cannot be ‘morally neutral’

Pope Leo XIV posted on X on Thursday that artificial intelligence cannot be considered "morally neutral," extending his campaign to position the Catholic Church as a leading ethical voice in the global AI debate.

Pope Leo XIV calls to ‘disarm’ AI in first encyclical

Pope Leo XIV on Monday released his first encyclical, a sweeping nearly 43,000-word document that calls for the "disarming" of artificial intelligence and warns that the technology risks becoming a modern Tower of Babel if left unchecked in the hands…

Adams’ photography lessons resurface as antidote to AI

As photographers grapple with AI-generated imagery and algorithm-driven content in early 2026, a new article highlights the enduring relevance of landscape photographer and theorist Robert Adams, whose writings emphasize care, patience, and authentic vision over technological performance.