The new pope chose his papal name because of AI. He told the

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The new pope chose his papal name because of AI. He told the cardinals that two days after his election, back in May 2025, before most of the world could even pronounce Prevost. His reasoning was specific. Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum in 1891, the encyclical that answered the first industrial revolution after machines started swallowing human labor. The new Leo said the Church now faces "another industrial revolution" in artificial intelligence, and took the name to signal he would answer it…

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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.