{"id":1045980,"date":"2026-10-31T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045980"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:19:21","slug":"pope-leo-warns-ai-agents-are-tools-not-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/pope-leo-warns-ai-agents-are-tools-not-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo warns AI agents are &#8216;tools, not persons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV warned Friday against giving artificial intelligence agents legal personhood or rights, saying the responsibility for their actions should lie firmly with their human creators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Machines are tools, not persons,&#8221; he said in a speech to leading international AI experts gathered at the Vatican for a dialogue on the technology&#8217;s future and the responsibilities of the scientific community and public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean,&#8221; the pope said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV warned Friday against giving artificial intelligence agents legal personhood or rights, saying the responsibility for their actions should lie firmly with their human creators. &#8220;Machines are tools, not persons,&#8221; he said in a speech to leading international AI experts gathered at the Vatican for a dialogue on the technology&#8217;s future and the responsibilities of the scientific community and public institutions. &#8220;So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046001,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045980\/revisions\/1046001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}