Pope Leo XIV
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Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.
Your brothers and sisters, I want to thank all of you for being here today, for your interest.
Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
The word is strong, I know.
but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.
We do not possess the technical answers, nor do we seek to displace those with expertise.
But we bring a wisdom concerning the human that our present time desperately needs.
Amen.
Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen.
At key moments in history, the Church is called to decipher the new things in the light of the Gospel and the dignity of the human being.
135 years ago, my venerable predecessor Leo XIII observed the situation of factory workers, their families uprooted and new forms of poverty generated by rapid industrial transformation.
He understood that the church could not remain distant.
Today, we find ourselves facing a transformation of similar magnitude with perhaps even greater consequences.
Artificial intelligence already touches many areas of our lives and affects decisions that shape human coexistence.
Like the earlier Leo, I feel entrusted to look upon another huge transformation with eyes of faith, with lucidity of reason, with openness to mystery, and with cries of the poor and the earth resounding in my heart.
Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.
The church has long been working for nuclear disarmament, aware that every great technical power can affect people's lives, and so must be accompanied by adequate moral discernment and public control.