The arrival of the new Pope, anticipated by some artificial intelligences, has brought the reasons behind the choice of the highest authority of the Church in Rome to the media. If Jorge Bergoglio bowed to Francisco, in honor of San Francisco de Asís, The new Pope suggests that AI is also behind his name: Leo XIII.
When exposing his vision of the papacy in a speech before the Cardinal College, Pope Leo XIV explained that Sor name refers to Pope Leo XII, who presided over the Church at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
“I chose the name of Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII, in his historical encyclical rerum novarum, addressed the social issue in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our day, the Church offers all the treasure of its social doctrine in response to another industrial revolution Advances in the field of artificial intelligence, which raise new challenges for the defense of human dignityjustice and work “explain in a video.
The Catholic Church has shown great interest in the development of AI in recent years. In a document published in January by the Vatican and translated into English, the Church reflected on AI, its limitations, its relationship with the truth and ethics of its development and use. The document also refers to a warning issued a year earlier by Pope Francis on the potential of AI to create “partial or totally false, believed and disseminated narratives as if they were true.”
But if Pope Francis established the position of the Catholic Church with respect to AI, the fact that Pope Leo XIV cite it as one of the main reasons for his name He suggests that it will be an even more important part of the church approach during his papacy.