LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear

# Summary Pope Leo XIV issued a 40,000-word encyclical criticizing AI for threatening human dignity, while a study from religiously affiliated universities argues that LLMs fail to incorporate religious perspectives into their responses. The article warns that these developments reveal concerning intersections between AI policy, religious ideology, and political agendas, with potential implications for workplace religious exemptions and efforts to inject fundamentalist religious training data into AI systems.