Vance calls Pope Leo’s AI warnings ‘profound’

Vance said in an interview with NBC News he is glad the pope tackled AI. He also discussed why X remains off his phone after he deleted it for Lent.

Vice President JD Vance praised Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday for issuing a new theological document rife with warnings about unbridled advancements in AI.

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The text, Leo’s first encyclical since his installation as pope last year, urged a restraint that doesn’t stop progress but, rather, functions as the “exercise of responsible care for the human family.”

Vance, a Catholic and a proponent of AI technology, said in a telephone interview with NBC News that he had yet to read the entire encyclical but had scanned “bits and pieces” and summaries of it.