As Pope Leo XIV He presented his vision of the papacy In the address to College of Cardinals, he also explained why he chose his papal name. Extremely, artificial intelligence played a huge role.
In the translation of his speech by the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV explained that his name was referred to by Pope Leo XII, who presided over the church at the dawn of the industrial revolution.
… I decided to take the name Leo XIV. There are various reasons, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historical encyclical Revolutionary He dealt with a social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our time, the Church offers all the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and development in the field of artificial intelligence, which pose up-to-date challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work.
Below is more fragment, published by Catholic information service.
The Catholic Church has been interested in the development of AI in recent years. In January Document published by the Vatican and translated into English, a church reflected on artificial intelligence, its limitations, its relationship with truth and ethics of development and apply of technology. The document also refers to Warning issued a year earlier Pope Francis about the potential of AI to create “partly or completely false narratives, belief and transmission, as if they were real.”
But if Pope Francis established, how the Catholic Church thinks about AI, Pope Leo XIV, citing this as the main reason for his name indicates that it would be an even greater part of the concentration of the Church during his papacy.