AI Must Not Undermine Human Dignity, Pope Tells Catholic Influencers
During a landmark Vatican gathering of digital missionaries, Pope Leo XIV called on young Catholics to protect meaningful speech and reach the suffering in the AI era.
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During a landmark Vatican gathering of digital missionaries, Pope Leo XIV called on young Catholics to protect meaningful speech and reach the suffering in the AI era.
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday called on the world to protect human dignity online amid the “challenge” of AI, at the Vatican’s first Mass for Catholic influencers.
He was speaking as thousands of young Catholics are in Rome this week for the Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth.
“Nothing that comes from man and his creativity should be used to undermine the dignity of others,” the Pope told young Catholic social media figures at the Mass in St Peter’s Basilica.
He called on the world to protect “our ability to listen and speak” in the “new era” of artificial intelligence.
The Vatican is holding a two-day event bringing together what it calls “digital missionaries and Catholic influencers” from around the world.
Pope Leo also called on Catholic social media influencers to convince others to create content that will “entail seeking out those who suffer and need to know the Lord.”
Since his election in May, the Pope—an American mathematics graduate—has repeatedly warned about the dangers of AI for young people.
