Ever since his election, Pope Leo XIV has made no bones about AI being a central theme for his papacy. In his very first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10 the Pope framed contemporary technological progress as a new industrial revolution, and made clear he chose his papal name in tribute to the 19th century Pope Leo XIII.
Since when the Holy father has been on a bit of a tear about the nascent technology, calling it a "threat to human dignity, justice and labour." The latest development comes from a Vatican seminar held on 16-17 October, called Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development, with the Latin phrase a direct nod to Pope Leo XIII's encyclical letter Rerum Novarum: "Of revolutionary change."
