"'Someone recently asked authorization to create an artificial me so that anybody could sign on to this website and have a personal audience with 'the pope,' but this artificial intelligence pope would give them answers to their questions, and I said, 'I'm not going to authorize that,'' he said."
"'If there's anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the pope is high on the list,' he continued in an excerpt for a planned biography, according to Crux, a Catholic media outlet."
"'If the Church doesn't speak up, or if someone doesn't speak up about that, but the Church certainly needs to be one of the voices here, the danger is that the digital world will go on its own way and we will become pawns, or left by the wayside,' he said, hastening to add that he's not entirely against AI technology."
Pope Leo XIV rejected a proposal to create an artificial version of the pope that would grant personal audiences and answer questions. He stated that the pope should not be represented by an avatar and condemned deepfakes and fraudulent AI-generated news. He highlighted that extremely wealthy individuals are pouring large sums into AI while ignoring humanity's needs. He warned that without the Church and other voices speaking up, the digital world could proceed unchecked and people could become pawns. He added that he is not entirely opposed to AI technology. Elon Musk responded to criticism with a Bible verse on X.
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