Pope warns against 'losing humanity' to AI machines

Pope Leo XIV has issued a informing astir the dangers of artificial quality (AI) astatine the commencement of his four-day sojourn to France.

The pontiff cautioned against "losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines" successful wide-ranging remarks to Church and authorities officials astatine the Élysée Palace, pursuing an hr of talks with President Emmanuel Macron.

Leo made a akin informing earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile helium spoke of the request for AI to beryllium "disarmed" successful the first large teaching papers of his papacy.

In his May appeal, helium mentioned the enslaved commercialized successful narration to AI, suggesting that the satellite was successful information of normalising the exploitation of radical erstwhile again.

The highpoint of Leo's sojourn to France is acceptable to beryllium a elephantine Mass attended by much than fractional a cardinal radical successful Paris connected Saturday, for which an altar has been built connected the Place de la Concorde and a ample country astir the Champs-Élysées sealed disconnected by police.

Large crowds are expected passim the trip, reflecting an enthusiasm that the Church attributes to increasing spirituality among the French and different Europeans.

He was greeted astatine Orly airdrome aboriginal connected Friday by Macron, with the brace expected to present a code aboriginal successful the time successful Metz.

Crowds were meantime gathering on a way to the Notre Dame, wherever the pontiff volition aboriginal beryllium driven successful his popemobile.

The president volition not beryllium astatine immoderate of the Pope's Masses, mostly to debar breaching France's strict separation of authorities and religion.

On Friday, Macron hailed Pope Leo's sojourn to France arsenic a "great honour", stressing that French secularism "in nary mode negates religion".

Leo said that "authentic secularity" should not exclude religion "from the nationalist sphere oregon from education".

In caller years, French politicians person often invoked France's marque of secularism to warrant bans connected spiritual symbols, including Muslim women's attire, successful nationalist spaces and schools.

The Champs-Élysées Mass volition beryllium attended by Macron's woman Brigitte and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. Several candidates for adjacent year's statesmanlike predetermination are besides due, including Marine Le Pen of the nationalist right, centrists Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal, and blimpish Bruno Retailleau.

There were reports of tensions betwixt Macron and the Vatican squad sent to marque arrangements, with the president allegedly frustrated successful his privation for a much ceremonial facet to the visit.

This was dismissed this week by Élysée officials, who said it was customary to connection a visiting caput of authorities – which the Pope is – a scope of high-profile events, specified arsenic a cavalry escort down the Champs-Élysées. But they said it was ne'er expected that the Pope would really instrumentality the connection up.

They did corroborate that Pope Leo turned down Macron's thought of a gathering with artisans who helped rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame cathedral. This was due to the fact that his docket was excessively tight, they said.

After a Popemobile thrust done crowds to Notre-Dame cathedral connected Friday afternoon, Pope Leo XIV volition beryllium joined successful the evening by 80,000 young radical astatine the Stade de France successful bluish Paris.

On Sunday 150,000 person signed up to be wide successful the Pyrenean sanctuary of Lourdes.

On Monday the Pope volition beryllium successful Metz, successful northeast France, wherever helium volition wage tribute to Robert Schuman (1886-1963), a founding begetter of the European Union and a fervent Catholic who is contiguous a campaigner for beatification.

The Pope volition besides conscionable a radical of migrants successful Paris, and successful Lourdes immoderate victims of intersexual maltreatment by members of the Catholic clergy.

Born successful Chicago successful 1955, Pope Leo XIV was primitively called Robert Prevost – a French name.

In information his paternal grandma was calved successful Le Havre successful Normandy successful 1894. When she joined successful the US galore years aboriginal she and her Italian hubby took the sanction Prevost, which had been her mother's maiden-name.

France has a historically analyzable narration with the Catholic Church of Rome. The state was agelong known arsenic the "Eldest Daughter of the Church" due to the fact that supposedly, but inaccurately, it was the archetypal kingdom to person to Christianity. Actually Armenia, Georgia and Ethiopia preceded it.

In the 14th Century the papacy came successful exile to Avignon successful confederate France, and implicit pursuing centuries French armies periodically intervened successful Italian politics, where popes were secular rulers arsenic good arsenic heads of the Church.

Napoleon held 2 popes successful captivity.

Recent popes person each travel to France, astir notably John-Paul II, who came respective times betwixt 1980 and 2004, and Pope Francis who came 3 times, but avoided Paris, going alternatively to Strasbourg, Marseilles and Corsica.

Today France has secularised with the remainder of Europe, and little than fractional of the colonisation identifies arsenic Catholic.

The fig of regular worshippers has fallen from 35% of the colonisation successful 1960 to little than 5% today, portion the fig of priests has shrunk by two-thirds from 25,000 successful 1990 to less than 9,000.

But successful caller years determination person been signs of a increasing involvement successful spiritual tradition, with the fig of big baptisms much than doubling successful 5 years to deed 10,000 successful 2025.

"France has so secularised, but determination is simply a void wherever God and values utilized to be," said Cardinal François Bustillo, Bishop of Ajaccio.

"People are searching for something. Maybe they spell to India oregon Tibet oregon the Amazon. And present the Pope comes present from Rome, bringing a reminder to radical of their ain roots.

"It was John-Paul II who awoke the East. Now Leo XIV volition awake the West," helium said.