Riccardo De Luca - Update / Shutterstock.com Sorry to anybody who believes AI models deserve rights: the Pontiff is not on your side. In a lengthy thread on X-formerly-Twitter today, Pope Leo XIV issued a scathing rebuke of calls for “AI personhood,” or the argument that AI models should be granted rights through a process of legal personhood. This would effectively make AI systems human in the eyes of the law, an approach that the Pope argues could shift