Oudtshoorn, 29 November 2025 – Over the past month, the Holy Father has repeatedly spoken on the topics of technology, the power of algorithms, and AI, addressing young people, journalists, scientists, educators, and priests, always reminding us to place spiritual solidity and human relationships at the center of our concerns.
Meeting with students on the occasion of the Jubilee Of The World Of Education, on 30 October 2025, Pope Leo used prophetic words to urge young people to use AI to act humanely:
Do not let the algorithm write your story!
Be the authors yourselves; use technology wisely, but do not let technology use you.
Artificial intelligence is also a great novelty — one of the rerum novarum, or “new things,” of our time. However, it is not enough to be “intelligent” in virtual reality; we must also treat one another humanely, nurturing emotional, spiritual, social and ecological intelligence. Therefore, I say to you: learn to humanize the digital, building it as a space of fraternity and creativity — not a cage where you lock yourselves in, not an addiction or an escape. Instead of being tourists on the web, be prophets in the digital world!.
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