World: What Did the Nobel Laureates and the Pope Just Say About AI and Nuclear Weapons? On July 16, 2026, more than 30 Nobel laureates and the Vatican issued the Rome Declaration, a historic call to ban autonomous artificial intelligence from making nuclear launch decisions. This unified front demands a global treaty to ensure "meaningful human control" over weapons of mass destruction, citing Pope Leo XIV’s landmark encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, as the moral foundation fo
