Pope Leo warns AI could erode humanity during France visit
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Pope Leo warned that artificial intelligence and other technologies could erode human dignity unless guided by ethics, speaking Friday at the start of a three-day visit to France.
At the Élysée Palace, Leo said education in ethical discernment was urgently needed to prevent humanity from being lost amid a “paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives.” In a later address at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, he said new technologies must remain “at the service of the human person” rather than become instruments of domination and injustice.
The pope said science risks losing its meaning when pursued without ethics and cautioned that computational systems described as intelligent could impoverish human ideas and relationships. He also criticized the tendency to judge people by efficiency and discard those considered no longer productive.
Leo criticized leaders who invoke the rule of law when it benefits them but disregard it when it imposes restraints. Reuters reported that he also warned the United Nations risks becoming a “charade,” while Vatican News highlighted his assertion that peace cannot be built through treaties alone.
The visit is the first official papal trip to France in 18 years. Leo is scheduled to celebrate an outdoor Mass at Paris’s Place de la Concorde on Saturday and deliver a speech on European peace in Metz on Monday.
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