Pope Leo XIV Creates Vatican AI Commission Amid New Industrial Revolution Warning

Pope Leo XIV has formally approved the creation of an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence, drawing a deliberate parallel between today's AI revolution and the social upheaval of the 19th-century industrial era. The Vatican's move to centralise AI governance under a single multi-dicastery body signals the Catholic Church's growing role as a global moral authority over transformative technology — a posture that aligns with prophetic warnings about a world religious institution exercising sweeping influence over the systems that govern human life. Revelation 13 describes an end-times religious-political structure with authority to shape commerce, identity, and society on a global scale.