Pope Leo XIV Says AI Poses New Challenges for ‘Human Dignity’ – He said artificial intelligence posed “new challenges.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-xiv-ai-artificial-intelligence-speech-2025-5
Pope Leo XIV Says AI Poses New Challenges for ‘Human Dignity’ – He said artificial intelligence posed “new challenges.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-xiv-ai-artificial-intelligence-speech-2025-5
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The growing prevalence of [artificial intelligence](https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-goldman-jpmorgan-bridgewater-using-ai-2023-12) across numerous industries has been hard to ignore, even for the [Catholic Church](https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-american-management-leadership-style-2025-5).
[Pope Leo XIV](https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-xiv-robert-prevost-first-us-pope-2025-5)[,](https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-xiv-robert-prevost-first-us-pope-2025-5) the first-ever US-born pope, addressed the College of Cardinals on Saturday for the first time since the papal conclave. In his speech, the new pope said artificial intelligence influenced his decision to take the name Leo XIV.
“Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution,” Leo XIV said. “In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice, and labor.”
This pope is 19 years younger than the previous one. That comes with a slightly different world view.
I’m not gonna call the leader of an ultra conservative brotherhood progressive or modern, but relative to the previous one, some new challenges have appeared in the past two decades.
At some point we will have a millennial pope as well. One who knows you can’t pause an online game.
You know what else also poses challenges? Is the Vatican’s opposition to women receiving reproductive healthcare, the Vatican getting in the way of same-sex couples marrying their partner, and the Vatican refusal to employ women in the same jobs they employ men.
All of 2010s was about hyping IT as a fireproof source of employment and indeed, AI is a direct threat to that dignity to be allowed to still work in the fields that are about to be automated by generative coding.
Very Interesting! The first world will become subservient slaves to AI