During the opening day of a four-day visit to France, Pope Leo XIV framed artificial intelligence as a tool that must remain subordinate to human dignity, raising ethical and social concerns without issuing a direct public call for regulation.
Pope Leo told UNESCO that AI should be a tool for people, not an instrument of domination or injustice.
He said delegating tasks to machines risks dehumanizing relationships and judging people by efficiency rather than dignity.
The pope highlighted AI’s role in spreading false information and obstructing dialogue, and said it cannot answer life’s deepest questions.
Landing in Paris, Pope Leo says AI must serve, not dominate humanity | National Catholic Reporter Skip to main content Vatican Vatican News Pope Leo waves as he attends a meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris Sept. (OSV News/Reuters/Abdul Saboor) by Justin McLellan Vatican Correspondent View Author Profile [email protected] Follow on Twitter at @m/McLellan_Js Join the Conversation Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. September 25, 2026 Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email to a friend Print Just two days after tech leaders themselves called for increased regulation of artificial intelligence at the U.N.
Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, told the council via videolink that "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole" if models develop at a rate faster than developers are able to control them. Advertisement Advertisement Most Read Stories #1 Catholic Church's culture problem is closer to home than Pope Leo thinks #2 French Catholics believe they're having a moment. "While 'intelligence' is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognize the inalienable dignity of human persons, whose lives are judged according to the criterion of efficiency and, when deemed no longer productive, are rejected and discarded," he continued.
25, 2026, as part of his four-day apostolic journey to France. Leo, a critic of unchecked AI whose first encyclical was devoted to the topic, said that artificial intelligence must remain at the service of humanity rather than become "yet another instrument of domination and injustice." Kicking off his four-day visit to France on Friday, Sept. Advertisement Leo's visit to UNESCO is the first by a pope since St.
Just two days after tech leaders themselves called for increased regulation of artificial intelligence at the U.N. Security Council in New York, Pope Leo XIV voiced his own concerns over the unchecked development of AI models from across the Atlantic. Leo,... The post Landing in Paris, Pope Leo says AI must serve, not
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