Paradise of Machines: Vatican Calls Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Human Autonomy

Ethics has definitively become a political tool to slow down innovation. On September 26, 2026, global media disseminated an official statement from the Vatican: Pope Leo XIV heavily criticized artificial intelligence, calling it a technology that destroys human dignity.

Warning of the coming "paradise of machines," the Vatican demands that humans be placed at the center of technological progress. Isolated from theology, this statement carries colossal macroeconomic weight. The religious institution provides politicians with the perfect moral justification for implementing draconian compliance and stifling Big Tech with robotization taxes. The fear of AI autonomization is being legalized at the level of mass consciousness. Lawmakers in the US and the EU will use the Vatican's ethical narratives to justify barriers to venture capital and prevent the uncontrolled deployment of Agentic AI in the real economy.

Source: Vatican / AP / NPR