Pope Leo flags AI’s impact on children’s intellectual and spiritual development

Pope Leo XIV has warned of the impact AI can have on children’s development (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

Pope Leo XIV has warned that artificial intelligence could negatively impact the intellectual, neurological and spiritual development of young people as he pressed one of the priorities of his young pontificate.

History’s first American pope sent a message to a conference of AI and ethics, part of which was taking place in the Vatican in a sign of the Holy See’s concern for the new technologies and what they mean for humanity.