Reclaiming AI From Corporate Control: The Pope's Blueprint for Shared Governance

With government regulation failing to keep pace, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical argues that institutional investors and citizens must take the lead in governing artificial intelligence. The Pope reframes AI not as an inevitable force but as a commercial product wielded by a vanishingly small number of corporations—demanding accountability from all of us. This highlights a critical reality: when traditional regulatory systems falter, shareholder activism and community power become our most effective tools for steering technology toward human flourishing.