The new pope wants to take AI

The Catholic Church is not exactly known for being at the height of politics – it still fulfilled Laturgy in Latin until the 1960s. But the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago -born Robert Pressee, has eyes to the future when it comes to artificial intelligence. In his first official meeting with the Cardinals of the Church, he cited the development of AI as one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, According to CNNS

“On our day, the church offers all the treasures of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to the development in the field of artificial intelligence, which represent new challenges for the protection of human dignity, justice and labor,” he he told senior clergy membersS He also said that he had chosen his name Leo as a signal for his intention to follow in the footsteps of Pope Leo XIII, whom he said he was working for the “social question in the context of the first major industrial revolution”.

Pope Leo XIII, who serves as the leader of the church from 1878 to 1903, is probably the most famous for the encyclical he published in 1891, entitled. “Of the revolutionary“Or” Rights and Obligations of Capital and Labor. “A remarkable text on workers’ rights, the letter was a call to alleviate” misery and misery that pressed so unfairly on the greater part of the working class “and has issued support for, among other things, the unification of labor.

Leo XIV also lifts the stick from its predecessor, Pope Francis, who also identified AI as a potential risk to humanity if it is not developed and unfolded ethically and in human -oriented way. Francis issued “Old“The note about the connection between artificial intelligence and human intelligence,” in which he insists that any development in the field of AI must “serve human dignity and not harm it.”

Pope Francis also spoke publicly on AI in 2024 G7 SummitWhere he described AI as the beginning of the “cognitive-industrial revolution” and warned that it was the risk of causing “greater injustice between advanced and developing nations or between dominant and suppressed social classes.” He too Delivered remarks at the World Economic Forum In Davos earlier this year before his passing, in which he warned that “human dignity and brotherhood were often subordinated to the pursuit of efficiency” during the development of new technologies and called those who participate in the development of AI to ensure that “encourages human dignity, the calling of human personality.”