Father Paolo Benanti

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

This is not the end of the reflection.

Well, we have to recognize that in this moment, the leading innovation on AI happen in two countries, that is United States and China.

But we do not forget that the majority of faithful probably belong to Africa and Latin America.

And so when you see a document like Magnifica Humanitas, you have to see a more broader approach.

It's not focused on Silicon Valley.

It's focused on humanity.

And if I have to express the percentage of preoccupation of the Pope, probably will be on the effect of the most fragile in the world, that will be the Global South.

And the idea that the big tech was present when the press release of the document was there, it's not to be understood as a picking one because he is faithful to the document.

Because the Pope sees really clearly, it's not enough an ethical approach that is decided by someone in the bottom room without a big sharing with other people.

And this means that, you know, maybe anthropic is the most active on AI, but it's not the way that the church is looking to every human beings in in the same fact that is a human beings has the right to participate to the debate.

So we are simple finding a dialogue also with people that are building such kind of things.

We do not pretend that they are in the same page where we are.

I think that this is a huge expression that Pope Francis leave to the church.

This ability to be open to the difference without fear and without the urgency to say we have to think everyone the same things now.

What we can understand, probably the best metaphorical image to understand that, is like when a plant grows.

You take water that comes from outside, but it's filtered from the roots.

So there is not a scientific committee that advises him directly.

But scientific and technological people were involved in a lot of satellite reflection that happened in the Holy See.

Last September, there was one

Really big in which people like Joshua Banjo, Hinton and other scientists, Max Techmark, was talking about the danger of superintelligence.

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