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Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, USA.
“AI will never be able to share faith,” warned Leo XIV. “The brain needs to be used.”
For those who think that not even the Church can escape the technological revolution brought about by Artificial Intelligence (AI), they will have to look to the Pope himself.
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The warning was reportedly made in a closed-door meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome at the end of last week, according to .
According to the same source, Leo XIV warned of the risk of priests failing to exercise their ability to reflect and write: because the brain is also a muscle.
“Like all the muscles in the body, if we don’t use them, if we don’t move them, they die”, warned the Pope: “The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence also needs to be exercised a little so that we don’t lose that capacity.”
“To give a homily is to share the faith” and AI “will never be able to share the faith”, Leo XIV reportedly concluded at the meeting, for whom AI is not the only danger online.
One “common illusion on the internet, on TikTok”is to treat followers and likes as an authentic spiritual connection, warned the Supreme Pontiff.
The statements come at a time when the Vatican seeks to define its position on new technologies. On the same day as the meeting with the clergy, an AI machine translation program for liturgical texts was announced, capable of working in real time in up to 60 languages.
