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Watch: Pope Leo XIV warns AI could threaten humanity in ‘paradise of machines’
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Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a "paradise of machines" risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, nuclear arms race and other threats to life itself.
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