Pope Leo XIV urges that AI serve the common good, not concentrate wealth and power

Speaking to participants at a Vatican conference on “Artificial Intelligence and Care of Our Common Home,” Pope Leo XIV said AI forces humanity to ask what it means to be human and warned that the technology must not be used solely to accumulate wealth and power in the hands of a few. Citing a UN report on the risk of a new ‘Great Divergence’ between rich and poor countries, he called for frameworks that safeguard human dignity, especially that of children and young people, and ensure AI is deployed inclusively for human development.