Father Paolo Benanti

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On with Kara Swisher · The Vatican Takes On AI · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

That means that we can imagine church like a cake with yeast.

So the yeast is something that is used to produce an augmentation.

of the shared thinking.

So it's not important to be in the Catholic Church that the Pope has a clear view and understanding of an issue, but it's much, much more important that this belongs to every faithful.

And this is a process that needs time, needs reflection.

So when something surfaces,

on the top level of the Church, so as a Pope document, that means that there was a huge digestion of a lot of different things.

Let's be back to Leo XIII.

Leo XIII was a nuncio, that means a diplomat of the Church, to the Northern Europe, and he saw what the steam power and machine are doing to the worker and to the transformation.

He reflected on that with a lot of people inside the church in Europe.

When he was elected pope, he was able to connect the dots and produce this rerum novarum that said to the church, look, we are not in the sacristy.

We are with the step in the world and with the brain in the heaven, but we have to walk on this world with other people.

And that was really interesting because the same thing probably is happening here with Pope Leo XIV.

So there are a lot of people that are reflecting on that, lay people, professor in the university, strange Franciscan like myself, doing strange things like this discussion with you.

And this is producing a sort of a global awareness.

It starts with Pope Francis, really clear, 2018, then 2019, 2020.

In 2020, it's not just a matter of what's happening inside the church, but it's also something that happened in everyone's life with COVID pandemic.

And COVID pushed every generation on digital means.

And so digital became top one of the topics.

So you can go back and see that the topic of AI is surfacing a lot of time in discussion on autonomous weapon, in discussion of child protection, in discussion of ethical approach to the algorithm.

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