{"id":52388,"date":"2025-07-06T01:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=52388"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:18:04","slug":"pope-tells-politicians-that-ai-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/pope-tells-politicians-that-ai-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Paus vertelt politici dat AI menselijke wezens moet dienen, niet vervangen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/pleo.jubilee.leaders.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">The pope told the political leaders that \u201cnatural law, which is universally valid apart from and above other more debatable beliefs, constitutes the compass by which to take our bearings in legislating and acting.\" \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vatican City, Jun 21, 2025 \/ 09:30 am (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo urged political leaders from around the world to promote the common good, warning especially of the threat to human dignity from artificial intelligence (AI).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;AI \u201cwill certainly be of great help to society, provided that its employment does not undermine the identity and dignity of the human person and his or her fundamental freedoms,\u201d the pope<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/speeches\/2025\/june\/documents\/20250621-giubileo-governanti.html\" target=\"null\" class=\"null\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> zei<\/a> on June 21 to legislators from 68 countries gathered at the Vatican for the Jubilee of Governments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cIt must not be forgotten that artificial intelligence functions as a tool for the good of human beings, not to diminish them, not to replace them,\u201d Leo said, speaking in English to the international audience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The pope has quickly made the challenge of artificial intelligence a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264921\/pope-leo-xiv-on-ai-all-of-us-are-concerned-for-children-and-young-people\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">signature issue<\/a> of his pontificate, highlighting it at a meeting with the College of Cardinals two days after his election last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mx-auto\" style=\"width:100%\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/p.leo.jubilee.italian.pm.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, pictured here greeting Pope Leo XIV, was among the leaders from 68 countries gathered at the Vatican for the Jubilee of Governments. Credit: Vatican Media\"><figcaption class=\"caption text-muted\">Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, pictured here greeting Pope Leo XIV, was among the leaders from 68 countries gathered at the Vatican for the Jubilee of Governments. Credit: Vatican Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his speech to political leaders on Saturday, Leo also urged them to promote the common good in other ways, including by \u201cworking to overcome the unacceptable disproportion between the immense wealth concentrated in the hands of a few and the world\u2019s poor.\u201d The pope decried such inequality as a leading cause of war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo stressed the importance of religious freedom and encouraged political leaders to follow the example of the 16th-century St. Thomas More as a \u201cmartyr for freedom and for the primacy of conscience.\u201d More was executed for refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the Church in England instead of the pope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leo also recommended the ethical tradition of natural law, whose roots in classical antiquity predate Christianity, as \u201ca shared point of reference in political activity\u201d and \u201can element that unites everyone\u201d regardless of religious belief.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Natural law arguments have played a prominent role in several recent legal and political debates, over issues including abortion, euthanasia, religious freedom, same-sex marriage and transgender policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pope told the political leaders that \u201cnatural law, which is universally valid apart from and above other more debatable beliefs, constitutes the compass by which to take our bearings in legislating and acting, particularly on the delicate and pressing ethical issues that, today more than in the past, regard personal life and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264923\/pope-tells-politicians-that-ai-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264923\/pope-tells-politicians-that-ai-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pope told the political leaders that \u201cnatural law, which is universally valid apart from and above other more debatable beliefs, constitutes the compass by which to take our bearings in legislating and acting.\" \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 21, 2025 \/ 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo urged political leaders from around the [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":55092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-52388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Pope-tells-politicians-that-AI-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them.webp?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56085,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/pope-leo-xiv-ai-developers-users-share-responsibility-to-promote-good-of-humanity\/","url_meta":{"origin":52388,"position":0},"title":"Pope Leo XIV: AI developers, users share responsibility to promote good of humanity","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"juli 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"null \/ Credit: LookerStudio\/Shutterstock Vatican City, Jul 10, 2025 \/ 15:15 pm (CNA). 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