Overview
- In a Dec. 5 address at the Vatican to participants in the Centesimus Annus–SACRU conference, the pope said AI is reshaping society and affecting critical thinking, learning, and relationships.
- He urged educators and families to protect children’s freedom and inner life, citing potential effects on neurological development and the need to use AI with one’s own intelligence.
- Leo asked how AI can be kept from concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few and pressed for development that benefits society.
- He called for coordinated responsibility across politics, institutions, business, finance, education, media, citizens, and religious communities, placing the common good above profit.
- The conference presented a report on AI’s impact across industry, finance, education, and communications, and a UNDP report this week warned of a possible “Great Divergence” unless developing countries share in the gains.