The Vatican will host the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War this week at Borgo Laudato si’ in the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, bringing together more than 200 of the world’s leading voices on peace and technology from 14 to 16 July.Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s new Encyclical Magnifica humanitas, dedicated to safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, the Assembly takes place amid ongoing international conflicts, growing instability, and an increasingly complex nuclear landscape. It is part of the Pope’s vision for a “disarmed and disarming peace.”The meetings will culminate in the drafting of the Rome Declaration for a Disarmed and Disarming Peace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear and Autonomous Weapons, New Digital Protocols, and Emerging Models of Digital Development.
The event will conclude on 16 July with a solemn session at Rome’s City Hall on the Capitoline Hill. A “Conclave”-style dialogue on humanity’s challenges
For three days, 30 Nobel laureates, former heads of state and government, and 20 of the world’s leading artificial intelligence experts and innovators — including representatives from OpenAI, Google Deep Mind, AARU and Anthropic — will join representatives from 30 of the world’s most prestigious universities and research institutions. Together they will engage in a “Conclave”-style dialogue on the principal challenges facing humanity today. Key topics include international security, the governance of emerging technologies, disarmament, and the development of an economy oriented towards peace. At the heart of the discussions will be the search for a new global paradigm capable of combining innovation, responsibility, and ethics.
The initiative is promoted by the Nobel Laureates Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Nobel Women’s Initiative, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the Yunus Centre, the Catholic University of America, the University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Notre Dame, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Soka Gakkai International, with the Domus Communis Foundation serving as General Secretariat. Participating universities and research institutions include Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, Oxford University, the University of Manchester, the Collège de France, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Tsinghua University, the Australian National University, the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” and many others.