Pope Leo says AI must be 'disarmed' in first major teaching
Pope Leo says AI must be 'disarmed' in first major teaching (bbc); Pope Leo warns AI must be “disarmed” in landmark encyclical (france24)
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4 bills on this issue are moving right now — and the most active one is Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025.
S1396 · 119th Congress
Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025
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What S1396 actually does
This story is about 5 ways Pope Leo says AI would warp humanity. This bill would humanity: Create federal transparency requirements around content provenance information.
If passed, it would:
- Create federal transparency requirements around content provenance information • Aim to protect artistic content from deceptive or provenance-stripped reuse.
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This story is about 5 ways Pope Leo says AI would warp humanity. This bill would humanity: Prohibit distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio/visual media tied to federal election activity.
If passed, it would
- Prohibit distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio/visual media tied to federal election activity • Create a federal standard focused on election-related AI deception.
This story is about 5 ways Pope Leo says AI would warp humanity. This bill would humanity: AI-driven voice/likeness cloning is a direct “human dignity” issue—people would be impersonated, defamed, or exploited at scale; thi.
If passed, it would
- Create federal civil protections around unauthorized “digital replicas” of a person’s voice/likeness • Set liability rules affecting platforms and/or services involved in distributing or monetizing those replicas.
This story is about 5 ways Pope Leo says AI would warp humanity. This bill would humanity: Require creation of an “Advanced Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Program” (via DOE) to evaluate advanced AI systems.
If passed, it would
- Require creation of an “Advanced Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Program” (via DOE) to evaluate advanced AI systems • Provide Congress with a policy hook to condition future deployment/critical-infrastructure uses on safety evaluation.