Global Governance

According to The New York Sun, Pope Leo has launched a high-profile campaign against the flood of low-quality AI-generated content, calling to ‘disarm’ artificial intelligence. The pontiff described the current generative-AI-driven content ecosystem as ‘pollution of the human spirit’ and signaled that the Vatican will keep pushing AI-ethics and content-quality debates in the years ahead. The address is widely viewed as a milestone in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and modern technology and adds a fresh framework for global AI-ethics and content-governance discussions.

The BBC reported on September 13 that the Iran war is reshaping cooperation within the Brics grouping while also exposing deep internal divisions over how to build an alternative international order, advance a common currency and set up a dispute-resolution mechanism. Brics members broadly agree that a new global order is needed but have so far failed to converge on what should replace the existing one or on how to make that vision operational. Several observers note that the Iran war could become the moment when the Brics shifts its priority from expansion to substantive coordination, but internal disagreements are likely to persist in the short term.