Pope Leo warns AI agents are ‘tools, not persons’

Inquirer.net - Oct 30, 2026

VATICAN CITY, Holy See—Pope Leo XIV warned Friday against giving artificial intelligence agents legal personhood or rights. He said the responsibility for their actions should lie firmly with their human creators. “Machines are tools, not persons,” he said in a speech to leading international AI experts gathered at the Vatican for a dialogue on the technology’s

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