{"id":27839,"date":"2025-05-15T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27839"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:24:33","slug":"top-priority-for-pope-leo-warn-the-world-of-the-a-i-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27839","title":{"rendered":"Top Priority for Pope Leo: Warn the World of the A.I. Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While it is far too early to say how he will use his platform to address such issues, his focus shows he is a church leader who grasps the gravity of this modern concern.<\/p>\n

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The parishioners at St. Matthias Sch\u00f6neberg Church in Berlin worry about artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Congregants fret that their children are finding false information on chatbots or social media. Teachers at the parish school regularly monitor for A.I.-enabled cheating. And in this parish of 12,000 Catholics from more than 100 countries, those who make a living as interpreters fear their jobs will soon be obsolete.<\/p>\n

Now, they have an ally in the new pope.<\/p>\n

Less than a week into the role, Leo XIV has publicly highlighted his concerns about the rapidly advancing technology. In his inaugural address to the College of Cardinals<\/a>, he said the church would address the risks that artificial intelligence poses to \u201chuman dignity, justice and labor.\u201d And in his first speech to journalists<\/a>, he cited the \u201cimmense potential\u201d of A.I. while warning that it requires responsibility \u201cto ensure that it can be used for the good of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it is far too early to say how Pope Leo will use his platform to address these concerns or whether he can have much effect<\/a>, his focus on artificial intelligence shows he is a church leader who grasps the gravity of this modern issue.<\/p>\n

Paolo Benanti, a Franciscan friar, professor and the Vatican\u2019s top adviser on the ethics of artificial intelligence<\/a>, said he was surprised by Leo\u2019s \u201cbold\u201d priorities. <\/span>Father Benanti remembers that just 15 years ago, when he told his doctoral advisers that he wanted to study cyborgs and human enhancement at the Gregorian, the pontifical university where he now teaches, his advisers thought he was nuts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd now it\u2019s the first topic of a pope,\u201d he said in an interview at his monastery this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a cardinal and head of the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, Pope Leo was already thinking about artificial intelligence. Father Benanti said that last September, the future pope, who has a degree in mathematics, invited the friar to talk to the heads of other Vatican departments about how to deal with digital life generally, including A.I.<\/p>\n

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While it is far too early to say how he will use his platform to address such issues, his focus shows he is a church leader who grasps the gravity of this modern concern.The parishioners at St. Matthias Sch\u00f6neberg Church in Berlin worry about artificial intelligence.Congregants fret that their children are finding false information on chatbots or social media. Teachers at the parish school regularly monitor for A.I.-enabled cheating. And in this parish of 12,000 Catholics from more than 100 countries, those who make a living as interpreters fear their jobs will soon be obsolete.Now, they have an ally in the new pope.Less than a week into the role, Leo XIV has publicly highlighted his concerns about the rapidly advancing technology. In his inaugural address to the College of Cardinals, he said the church would address the risks that artificial intelligence poses to \u201chuman dignity, justice and labor.\u201d And in his first speech to journalists, he cited the \u201cimmense potential\u201d of A.I. while warning that it requires responsibility \u201cto ensure that it can be used for the good of all.\u201dWhile it is far too early to say how Pope Leo will use his platform to address these concerns or whether he can have much effect, his focus on artificial intelligence shows he is a church leader who grasps the gravity of this modern issue.Paolo Benanti, a Franciscan friar, professor and the Vatican\u2019s top adviser on the ethics of artificial intelligence, said he was surprised by Leo\u2019s \u201cbold\u201d priorities. Father Benanti remembers that just 15 years ago, when he told his doctoral advisers that he wanted to study cyborgs and human enhancement at the Gregorian, the pontifical university where he now teaches, his advisers thought he was nuts.\u201cAnd now it\u2019s the first topic of a pope,\u201d he said in an interview at his monastery this week.Paolo Benanti in Rome, last year.Alessandro Penso for The New York TimesAs a cardinal and head of the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, Pope Leo was already thinking about artificial intelligence. Father Benanti said that last September, the future pope, who has a degree in mathematics, invited the friar to talk to the heads of other Vatican departments about how to deal with digital life generally, including A.I.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27841,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27842,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions\/27842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}