07/15/2025
The tech giants thought they could replace humanity with their machines.
They didn’t count on one powerful voice standing up to their tyranny.
And Pope Leo XIV slammed the tech oligarchs and it created problems they never saw coming.
Pope Leo XIV becomes the first American pope to take on Big Tech
Pope Leo XIV made history when he became the first American to sit on the Throne of St. Peter.
But he’s not just breaking barriers – he’s breaking up the cozy relationship between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.
The Catholic Church has often been accused of being behind the times, but Leo XIV is proving that faith leaders can be ahead of the curve when it comes to the biggest threats facing humanity.
In his first official address to the College of Cardinals last month, Leo XIV delivered a devastating blow to the AI industry that left tech executives scrambling for answers.
He warned that artificial intelligence poses serious risks to “human dignity, justice, and labour.”¹
Leo XIV holds a degree in mathematics, so he understands the technology better than most politicians who rubber-stamp whatever Big Tech wants.
He praised the technology’s potential to make all our lives better but made it crystal clear that if left unchecked, it could cause far more harm than good.
The new pope follows in the footsteps of a champion for workers
Leo XIV chose his papal name for a reason that should terrify Silicon Valley executives.
His namesake, Leo XIII, famously defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution and refused to accept that people were just cogs in a profit-making machine.
Now Leo XIV is doing something similar by standing up to the idea that AI is an acceptable replacement for human beings.
He sees the Catholic Church as uniquely positioned to take on this issue, offering “the treasury of her social teaching” in response to “another industrial revolution.”²
And he’s got plenty of ammunition to back up his concerns.
Big Tech’s AI takeover is already destroying jobs
The evidence is piling up that AI isn’t just coming for jobs – it’s already here.
Major tech news site CNET started using AI to generate articles in 2023, quietly publishing around 75 AI-generated finance explainers.
But they screwed up big time when people caught all the mistakes and CNET had to embarrassingly backtrack with corrections.³
CNET tried to make it sound noble, claiming they were just freeing up their human reporters to work on the “important stuff” instead of boring recaps.
Yeah, right.
That’s corporate speak for “we’re replacing humans with machines.”
Swedish fintech company Klarna announced that its AI assistant was handling the workload of 700 full-time human employees in customer service.
The company claimed it resolved two-thirds of queries without any human input at all.⁴
But Klarna recently concluded that the AI assistant had led to a much lower quality of service and the company is now intending to rehire more humans.
So much for the AI revolution.
The corporate war on human workers gets worse
British telecoms company BT Group was even more brazen about its anti-human agenda.
The company announced in 2023 that it plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs by 2030, to be replaced by AI, mostly in customer service.⁵
But the most disturbing sign of where this is headed can be found in London’s Tube stations.
Ads from a tech company called Artisans have started popping up telling companies to “stop hiring humans” and boasting that “the era of AI employees is here.”⁶
The company itself has admitted that this was a deliberately provocative “ragebait” campaign, but it shows exactly what Silicon Valley thinks about working Americans.
They want to replace us all with machines.
Silicon Valley wants AI to replace your friends and family too
The tech oligarchs aren’t content with just destroying jobs.
They want to replace human relationships as well.
Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed that he wouldn’t be surprised if chatbots start compensating for flesh-and-blood friends and romantic partners as a solution to the so-called loneliness epidemic.⁷
The statistics show that plenty of people are already open to trying this, and some have virtual relationships.
Services like Replika – a customizable AI chatbot designed to act as a digital companion – are becoming more popular.
This is exactly the kind of dystopian future that Pope Leo XIV is warning about.
The Catholic Church stands firm against the AI cult
For Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, defending humanity against AI replacement is a natural choice.
Here’s the thing – Catholics believe that people are made in the image of God.
So when tech bros act like their machines are better than human beings, that’s not just wrong – it’s insulting to everything Catholics hold sacred.
Before Pope Francis died, the Vatican saw this coming and released a document called “Antiqua et nova” that spelled out exactly why this AI worship is dangerous.
The document warned that humanity “risks creating a substitute for God” by turning to AI as something greater than itself.⁸
That’s a warning that should matter to everyone, not just Catholics.
Even if you don’t believe that humanity was created by God, there’s serious danger in assuming there’s nothing special about human beings.
There’s something about us that’s more than just inputs and outputs – something that can’t be replicated by code.
Pope Leo XIV offers hope for humanity’s future
Leo XIV isn’t against all technology.
He acknowledges that AI has “immense potential” to be “used for the good of all” – provided it’s used responsibly.
The technology has real benefits when it’s helping doctors find new medicines faster or giving disabled people better ways to get around.
But there’s a huge difference between using AI as a tool and letting it replace human beings entirely.
In an era when people are losing faith in what makes humanity special, it’s refreshing to hear Pope Leo XIV willing to stand up and fight back.
His message about human dignity reminds us that there’s something about people that machines can’t copy or replace.
The tech oligarchs thought they could steamroll over humanity with their machines.
But they didn’t count on the first American pope standing up and saying “not on my watch.”
¹ Lauren Smith, “Pope Leo’s Crusade Against AI,” The European Conservative, July 9, 2025.
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