Peter Thiel has accused Pope Leo XIV of acting as a 'Chinese communist agent' over AI regulation, turning a routine Aspen Ideas Festival panel in Colorado into one of the sharpest Vatican-tech rows of the year. The billionaire investor made the remark on Tuesday while arguing that the Pope's warnings about artificial intelligence could slow the United States while leaving China untouched.Peter Thiel, Pope Leo XIV and the AI FightThe news came after Pope Leo XIV used his first encyclical in May to call for tighter international rules on artificial intelligence and to warn that the technology should be 'disarmed,'…