AI Pope rejected by Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV has rejected the notion of an AI Pope in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen. “If there’s anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the Pope is high on the list,” he said. Pope Leo who has shared his ideas on new technology, commented that he had been asked for authorisation for an AI Pope.
“Someone recently asked authorization to create an artificial me so that anybody could sign onto this website and have a personal audience with ‘the Pope’,” he said. “This artificial intelligence Pope would give them answers to their questions, and I said, ‘I’m not going to authorize that’.”
The Pope has previously stated that he chose the name Leo in part to pay tribute to Pope Leo III, the 19th-century pontiff known for Rerum Novarum, a paper on the exploitation of the working class during the industrial revolution. He described AI as being “another industrial revolution” during an address to cardinals.
In his latest interview, he also discussed human rights and dignity. “If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there’s a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line,” he said.
He expressed his worries about “extremely rich people who are investing in artificial intelligence,” while “totally ignoring the value of human beings and of humanity,” and added that if the Church “doesn’t speak up, or if someone doesn’t speak up about that, but the Church certainly needs to be one of the voices here, the danger is that the digital world will go on its own way and we will become pawns, or left by the wayside.”
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