
During a speech at the Élysée, the sovereign pontiff warned against technological and bioethical excesses.
On an official visit to France, Pope Leo XIV strongly criticized artificial intelligence and the law on assisted dying in front of Emmanuel Macron, calling for ethical discernment in the face of technological and bioethical abuses.
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Two months ago, the French Parliament adopted a law creating a right to assisted dying. Artificial intelligence is a major theme at the start of the pontificate of Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV went on the offensive for the first speech of his highly anticipated four-day visit to France. At the Elysée, on Friday September 25, he spoke of secularism, the dangers of artificial intelligence and the end of life, criticizing the risk of a "paradise of machines" and "the offer of a programmed death".
Leo Two months ago, the French Parliament adopted a law creating a right to “assisted dying”, strongly opposed by the Church. Having made AI a major theme at the start of his pontificate, the pope warned against the risk of losing "our humanity in the middle of the paradise of machines which invade and condition our daily lives".
The Pope called before Emmanuel Macron to develop "ethical discernment" in a context of growing concern over the supervision of artificial intelligence tools. The French president had previously, in his speech, advocated an “international organization” to avoid AI concentrated in “a few hands”.

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