Pope Leo warns that AI will become “another Tower of Babel.”

Pope Leo warns that AI will become “another Tower of Babel.”

By abcnews
Publication Date: 2026-05-25 20:42:00

Pope Leo

Catholic popes have been calling on world leaders to address social justice issues for 135 years in about two dozen key documents that many of the world’s 1.4 billion faithful can cite by their two- or three-word titles.

Now Leo

The Pope called for “robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not shirk its responsibilities.”

Citing the biblical story of the Tower of Babel – where a human tribe is driven by pride to build a tower high enough to reach heaven,…