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In his first speech to the press, Pope Leo XIV recognized that AI has “immense potential” but emphasized that we need to “ensure that it can be used for the good of all.”

“Overall the Church has been very positive toward technology in the past,” Brian Green, Ethics Center's director of technology ethics, told Sigal Samuel in 2018. “But as humans have become more powerful, the Church has felt like it has to say no to more things,” particularly technologies that it perceives as hindering human life, like birth control or nuclear weapons. 

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by Vox.