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Vatican City, Jan 23, 2025 / 10:40 am

Pope Francis on Thursday released his message to global leaders attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week, telling attendees that artificial intelligence (AI) must ultimately serve humanity and the common good.

As “a protagonist and a supporter of the advancement of science, technology, the arts, and other forms of human endeavors,” the Holy Father said, the Catholic Church teaches that such developments should be used to “improve life for everyone.”

“AI must be ordered to the human person and become part of efforts to achieve ‘greater justice, more extensive fraternity, and a more humane order of social relations,’ which are ‘more valuable than advances in the technical field,’” he said, citing Gaudium et Spes, No.

35, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2293.

In his Jan. 23 message, the pope said AI is “no