Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

In the back, we have Francis's turtles that come out at noon and sunbathe under the beautiful Roman skies.

They're entirely scholarly gatherings.

They're very global.

Imagine a workshop at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, or at UCLA, or at Harvard.

And it's entirely the free exchange of ideas.

And everyone understands the weight of an academy that began...

really in the 1600s, that has been a very powerful instrument for the popes to reflect upon matters of scholarly and scientific interest.

To give you a sense, at any moment, there are over 50 Nobel laureates who are members of the academy.

And again, the academicians that get selected are folk of enormous renown.

And when you achieve enormous renown, you come to understand the fragility.

We live in the age of fragility.

We live in the age of uncertainty.

And we live in the age of vertigo.

And I think all the academicians live in that trinity, fragility, uncertainty, vertigo.

And AI is at the heart of the vertigo piece.

The human systems are not very well adapted to the kinds of by-the-minute changes that AI represents.

Yeah.

That's a wonderful question.

It really goes into the heart of the purpose of the academies.

The academy's motto is faith and reason.