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Vatican city: Pope Leo XIV exhibited the vision of his papacy on Saturday, identified artificial intelligence as one of the most critical affairs for humanity and promised to continue some of Pope Francis' core priorities.

In his first formal audience, Leo repeated Francis and his own mission statement by the Argentine Pope from 2013 and made a commitment to make the Catholic Church more integrative, to draw attention to the believers and a church that looks “least and rejected”.

Leo, the first American Pope, told the cardinals that had chosen him that he was fully committed to the reforms of the second Vatican Council, the meeting of the 1960s, which the church modernized.

He identified AI as one of the main problems for humanity and said that it was facing challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work.

Leo referred to AI to explain the choice of his name: his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was Pope from 1878 to 1903 and laid the foundation for modern Catholic thinking. He did this with his encyclical Rerum -Novarum from 1891 the best known, which dealt with the rights and capitalism of employees at the beginning of the industrial age. The late Pope criticized both the capitalism of Laissez-Faire and state socialism and gave shape a significantly Catholic vein of economic teaching.

In his comments on Saturday, Leo said that he had identified with his predecessor, who dealt with the great social question of the day, which arises from the industrial revolution in the encyclical.

“In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to a different industrial revolution and developments in the field of artificial intelligence, the new challenges for defense human dignity, justice and work,” he said.

Towards the end of his pontificate, Francis was increasingly loud about the threats to humanity of AI and called for an international contract for regulation.

He warned that such powerful technologies cause human relationships to be transformed into mere algorithms. Francis brought his message to the group of seven industrialized nations when he spoke to her summit last year, and insisted that the AI ​​must remain in a human manner so that decisions about when weapons should be used, or even less fatal tools are always made by people and not machines.

The late Argentine Pope also used his annual message of peace from 2024 to request an international contract to ensure that the AI ​​is ethically developed and used, and argues that a technology that lacks sympathy, mercy, morality and forgiveness, is too dangerous.

In the speech that was kept in Italian in the Vatican's synod hall – not in the Apostolic Palace – Leo gave repeated references to Francis and the grief for his death. He stopped Franci's declaration of mission at the beginning of his pontificate “The Joy of the Gospel” as something of his own marching orders, which indicates that he wants to continue a lot in Francis' priorities.

He quoted Francis' insistence on the missionary nature of the church and the need to make his leadership more collegial. He quoted the need to pay attention to what the believers say, “especially in their most authentic and integrative forms, especially in the population.” With regard to Francis' declaration of mission from 2013, Leo cited the need for the church to be “loving for the toddlers and rejected” and to participate in brave dialogue with the contemporary world.

Greeted from standing ovation when he entered, Las Leo from his prepared text and only appeared occasionally. Even when he first appeared in the St. Peter Basilica loggia on Thursday evening, Las Leo Las Leo from a prepared text, which he must have moved in at some point before his historical election or the hour later.