A retired Air Force lieutenant general who was the first director of the DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, a former chair of NATO’s highest-level nuclear policymaking body, and a legal and political strategist with ties to the Vatican may not share an obvious agenda. But we do share a conviction: AI’s role in humanity’s future may be the most significant issue of our time, and this requires sustained national and international dialogue. We likewise share both the enthusiasm and unease Pope Leo XIV expressed in his first encyclical covering AI’s known and unknowable impacts. Now,…