Pope Leo says AI risk concerns not โfake newsโ
Leader of the Catholic Church says AI safety issues should be taken seriously and acted on.
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Leader of the Catholic Church says AI safety issues should be taken seriously and acted on.
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Miles Pattenden, historian of the Catholic Church at the University of Oxford. For Pattenden, Pope Leo XIVโs visit to France is part of a broader recalibration of the papacy. While Pope Francis placed particular emphasis on the Catholic Churchโs peripheries and the needs of the Global South, Leo is subtly bringing the Churchโs historic European heartlands back into focus. France is especially significant in this regard, given its deep historical relationship with Catholicism and its evolving relationship with Christianity, European identity, secularism and contemporary geopolitical debates.
After leaving Paris, Pope Leo XIV ended his second day in France in Lourdes, where he prayed at the Grotto of Massabielle, one of the Catholic Churchโs major pilgrimage sites. He is the third pope to visit Lourdes, following Benedict XVI and John Paul II. On Sunday, the pontiff is due to celebrate another open-air mass before meeting privately with seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse. A French inquiry found that members of the Church had abused around 330,000 people as minors over seven decades. Catherine Viette reports.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday arrives in France for a four-day visit โ his fifth Apostolic journey since becoming pontiff last year โ during which he hopes to repair the Catholic Churchโs standing after sexual abuse scandals while also addressing issues such as the need to regulate AI. FRANCE 24 guides you through his visit.
Preparations are underway in France for Pope Leoโs visit from September 25 to 28. During his trip, the Pontiff is expected to meet victims of church sexual abuse, as the Catholic Church faces renewed scrutiny following recent scandals. Delano D'Souza reports.
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