On AI Ethics: Why Prompt Engineering Needs a Moral Compass

This article examines ethical risks arising from AI prompting and prompt engineering—including bias amplification, privacy leaks, hallucinations, malicious misuse, and accountability challenges—cites a Vatican encyclical by Pope Leo XIV and multiple media and academic sources, and calls for clearer policies, oversight, and human roles in governing rapidly spreading AI agents, with promised follow-up solutions in a subsequent piece.