Pope Leo XIV, leader of the Catholic Church, on Thursday warned French officials in his speech about the increasing influence of machines on people's daily lives.
According to ITNA quoting Axios, at the start of his trip to France and in a speech at the Élysée Palace, Pope Leo said that although computational systems are labeled "intelligent," human society still faces difficulty in recognizing human dignity.
He went on to warn that if a "paradise of machines" invades and forms over daily life, humanity risks losing its humanity, and therefore there is an urgent need for teaching moral discernment and the ability to recognize moral good.
Pope Leo has presented himself as one of the leading voices in the path of curbing the development and spread of artificial intelligence.
History of the Pope’s engagement with artificial intelligence
Confronting the consequences of artificial intelligence has from the outset become one of the main pillars of Pope Leo XIV's papacy:
After being elected pope he announced that part of the reason for choosing his papal name "Leo" goes back to Pope Leo XIII having faced the changes of the Industrial Revolution, while now the Church is facing "another industrial revolution" led by artificial intelligence.
In his first official encyclical of his papacy, Leo stressed the necessity of "disarming" artificial intelligence to prevent its domination over humanity.
Before his death Pope Francis had also warned that artificial intelligence could reduce humans to a collection of data.