Pope Leo Xiv put forward his vision for his own pope, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical things facing humanity, and vows to continue the core priorities of his former Pope Francis.
Leo repeatedly cited Francis’ own 2013 mission statement among his first formal audiences, with a clear commitment to make the Catholic Church more inclusive, focusing on faithfulness and attention to “minimum and rejection.”
Leo, the first born pope in the United States, told the cardinal who was elected two days ago that he was fully committed to the reform of the second Vatican parliament held at the 1960s conference to modernize the church.
He believes that AI is a key issue, saying it poses a challenge to defending human dignity, justice and labor.
Leo mentioned AI when explaining his pope's name. Leo XIII was the pope from 1878 to 1903, laying the foundation for modern Catholic social thought – most famously his 1891 encyclopedia (Pontificate) novarumwhich targets workers' rights and capitalism at dawn of the Industrial Age.
The late Pope criticized laissez-faire capitalism and state-centered socialism, forming shapes for the Catholic veins of economic teaching.
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“In our own time, the church provides everyone with a treasury for social teaching of another industrial revolution and provides new challenges for the development of the field of artificial intelligence to defend human dignity, justice and labor.”
Francis, who died on April 21, was increasingly speaking out at the end of his purpose, threatening artificial intelligence to humanity and calling for international treaties to regulate it. He warned that such powerful technical risks turned relationships into algorithms.
Speaking at the summit last year, Francis brought his message to a group of seven industrialized countries, insisting that AI must remain centered so that decisions about when to use weapons and even fewer deadly tools are always made by humans rather than machines.
The late Pope also used his annual peace message of 2024 to call on international treaties to ensure that AI is morally developed and used, and believes that technology lacking human sympathy, mercy, morality and forgiveness is too dangerous to develop.
During Saturday's speech, Leo gave Italians in the Vatican's new conference hall, repeatedly mentioning Francis and his death mourning.
He served as Francis’s mission statement at the beginning of the 2013 “God of the Gospel”, his own march order, suggesting that he intends to continue Francis’ priorities.
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He mentioned Francis' insistence on the church to make its leadership more collaborative, expressing “at least and rejecting love” and having a brave conversation with the contemporary world.
Leo also mentioned the need to pay attention to what the believers say, especially in [their] Most authentic and inclusive forms, especially popular piety. ”
Leo read from the words he prepared, and only occasionally looked up and was welcomed by warm applause. Even if he first appeared in the world on the porch of St. Peter's Basilica on Thursday night, Leo read from prepared text that he might have drafted it sometime before or after the historic elections in an hour or so.
