ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Monday raised the alarm over the use of AI in warfare and called for the technology to be “disarmed” and prevented from “dominating humanity." In a document known as an encyclical — a papal letter outlining the church's perspective on a key topic — Leo said that artificial intelligence should never be used to make lethal decisions and warned that chat bots and other AI tools should never be equated with humans. The encyclical marks the Catholic Church’s most forceful