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Leo XIV\u2019s balanced view of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/church\/news\/2026-03\/javier-cercas-leo-xiv-balanced-view-artificial-intelligence.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-12 10:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.vaticannews.va<\/a><\/p>\n

The Spanish writer Javier Cercas reflects on Pope Leo’s Message for World Day of Social Communications.\n<\/p>\n

By Javier Cercas<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV\u2019s Message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, entitled, \u201cPreserving Human Voices and Faces\u201d, is an important text. It is important for Catholics and non-Catholics, for believers and for non-believers. It is important because of its many implications \u2014 political, religious, moral, social, economic \u2014 and because of many more reasons than I am unable to comment upon here. I will mention just a few of them.<\/p>\n

I am not an expert in Artificial Intelligence, but I am surprised when I hear the same or similar apocalyptic forecasts that have been repeated throughout the course of history, every time there was a big technological revolution (and there is no doubt that AI is that). In Plato\u2019s\u00a0Phaedrus, King Thamus complained of the advent of writing, an extremely dangerous invention that would \u201cimplant forgetfulness in their souls\u201d and cause them to \u201ccease to exercise memory\u201d because mankind would rely on what is \u201cwritten\u201d. Moreover, Plato\u2019s character said that writing would make the relationship between teacher and student irrelevant \u2014 a relationship that is essential for all learning. Writing he continued, will not give people wisdom but \u201cthe conceit of wisdom\u201d which will lead to the end of authentic culture.<\/p>\n

Centuries after Plato, the same or similar complaints resurfaced when Guttenberg invented the printing press. Many predicted that, with the new discovery, culture would expand beyond the limits known until then, leaving the exclusivity of the libraries where it had been stored until then, to reach a very numerous public. In this way, knowledge would lose value and become vulgar in order to reach the wider public. And thus, the more demanding culture \u2014 the new, authentic culture \u2014 would be degraded and in the end, disappear.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago we heard similar things about…<\/p>\n

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