{"id":996294,"date":"2026-03-05T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996294"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:05:25","slug":"vatican-warns-ai-could-lead-to-social-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/05\/vatican-warns-ai-could-lead-to-social-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican warns AI could lead to &#8216;social control&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Wednesday warned artificial intelligence could lead to &#8220;social control&#8221; and &#8220;manipulation&#8221; and called for more focus on human relationships to counter the dehumanising effects of digital technology. <\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging document with the Latin title &#8220;Quo Vadis, Humanitas?&#8221; (Whither Humanity?), the Vatican&#8217;s International Theology Commission said humanity was faced with &#8220;never before imagined risks&#8221; from tech. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we are witnessing a loss of the sense of history and a reduction of experience to the fleeting moment,&#8221; the document said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Wednesday warned artificial intelligence could lead to &#8220;social control&#8221; and &#8220;manipulation&#8221; and called for more focus on human relationships to counter the dehumanising effects of digital technology. In a wide-ranging document with the Latin title &#8220;Quo Vadis, Humanitas?&#8221; (Whither Humanity?), the Vatican&#8217;s International Theology Commission said humanity was faced with &#8220;never before imagined risks&#8221; from tech. &#8220;Today we are witnessing a loss of the sense of history and a reduction of experience to the fleeting moment,&#8221; the document said.<\/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-996294","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\/996294","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=996294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}