Pope Leo XIV calls this a challenge to 'human dignity' in first address to cardinals

In his archetypal authoritative remarks arsenic pope, Leo XIV delivered a almighty connection to the College of Cardinals connected Saturday, informing that artificial quality (AI) presents superior caller risks to quality dignity. He called connected the Catholic Church to measurement up and respond to these challenges with motivation clarity and bold action.

Speaking astatine the New Synod Hall, the Pope said the Catholic Church has faced akin moments before. 

He compared today’s accelerated AI technological alteration to the upheaval of the 19th period concern revolution, saying the Church indispensable again support workers and beforehand justice.

"Pope Leo XIII, with the historical Encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the societal question successful the discourse of the archetypal large concern revolution," Pope Leo XIV said. "Today, the Church offers to each her treasure of societal teaching successful effect to different concern gyration and the developments of artificial intelligence."

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Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals successful the New Synod Hall astatine the Vatican connected Saturday. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, is the archetypal American to beryllium elected pope.

A erstwhile missionary and caput of the Dicastery for Bishops, helium speaks English, Spanish and Italian and was wide seen arsenic a unifying prime aft the decease of Pope Francis. His determination to instrumentality the sanction "Leo" connects his ngo with Pope Leo XIII’s absorption connected societal justice.

Under Pope Francis, the Vatican greatly expanded its integer outreach. It restructured its media operations, launched fashionable societal media efforts and introduced ethical guidelines for AI. The "Rome Call for AI Ethics" is simply a associated inaugural betwixt the Church and tech leaders promoting transparency successful AI development.

Pope Leo XIV made wide that helium would proceed this work. In his speech, helium described AI arsenic a almighty unit that could reshape labor, nine and adjacent however we spot ourselves. He emphasized that people, not profit, indispensable stay astatine the center.

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Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals successful the New Synod Hall astatine the Vatican, Saturday. (Vatican Media via AP)

"These are Gospel principles done which the merciful look of the Father has been revealed and continues to beryllium revealed successful the Son made man," helium said. "Let america instrumentality up this precious bequest and proceed connected the journey, inspired by the aforesaid anticipation that is calved of faith."

He besides urged Catholics to enactment grounded successful quiescent supplication and discernment successful a noisy integer world. He quoted Scripture to accidental that God is often heard not successful thunder oregon spectacle, but successful "the susurration of a gentle breeze" oregon "the dependable of sheer silence."

The Pope besides reflected connected the caller decease of Pope Francis. He called the infinitesimal some sorrowful and filled with God’s grace. He described the modulation to a caller pope arsenic a "paschal event," a benignant of spiritual turning point, and thanked his predecessor for his beingness of service.

Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals successful the New Synod Hall astatine the Vatican connected Saturday. (Vatican Media via AP)

"I would similar america to renew unneurotic contiguous our implicit committedness to the way that the cosmopolitan Church has present followed for decades successful the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council," helium said. He besides encouraged much listening, dialog and attraction for the poor.

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As Vatican Media reported, the Pope’s remarks "invoked a imaginativeness of a Church firmly rooted successful contented but consenting to conscionable the aboriginal with courage," peculiarly successful its effect to technologies that are reshaping quality identity.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.