Pope Leo Said No to That Nightmarish AI Pope Idea

Pope Leo XIV has declared that there will be no AI Pope as long as he is around. It's not a sentence we ever imagined we would write, or, frankly, read. There is no need to further reiterate the worrying spread of artificial intelligence, but its possible and presumed implementation within the religious sphere, especially the papal sphere, sounds even more dystopian.

According to the pontiff himself during an interview with Eloise Allen, his biographer, someone asked him for his blessing to create an AI version of himself with which people could chat directly online. Pope Leo, of course, replied cordially that this was not appropriate - “if there is anyone who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say that the Pope is at the top of the list.”

The pontiff's opinion on artificial intelligence is quite clear: he considers it another industrial revolution that will harm people more than it can genuinely help them. Automating the entire world and giving only a select few people the opportunity to live full lives is cruel, a problem that should never have arisen.