As Pope Leo XIV laid out his imaginative and prescient for the papacy in an handle to the Faculty of Cardinals, he additionally defined why he picked his papal title. Extremely, synthetic intelligence performed a giant half.
Within the Vatican’s translation of his speech, Pope Leo XIV defined that his title references Pope Leo XII, who presided over the church on the daybreak of the commercial revolution.
…I selected to take the title Leo XIV. There are completely different causes for this, however primarily as a result of Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social query within the context of the primary nice industrial revolution. In our personal day, the Church provides to everybody the treasury of her social instructing in response to a different industrial revolution and to developments within the subject of synthetic intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.
Beneath is extra of the excerpt, revealed by the Catholic Information Service.
The Catholic Church has taken a eager curiosity within the growth of AI lately. In a January doc revealed by the Vatican and translated to English, the church mirrored on AI, its limitations, its relationship with the reality, and the ethics of growing and utilizing the expertise. The doc additionally references a warning issued a 12 months prior by Pope Francis about AI’s potential to create “partially or utterly false narratives, believed and broadcast as in the event that they have been true.”
But when Pope Francis arrange how the Catholic Church feels about AI, Pope Leo XIV citing it as a important cause for his title hints that it will likely be a fair larger a part of the church’s focus throughout his papacy.