Pope Leo says AI lacks the "spark of humanity" — and wants artists and the church to fight back — SkimNews
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- Pope Leo XIV called Friday for the Catholic Church to form an alliance with artists to protect human creativity from the rise of AI-generated content.
- While acknowledging AI's potential benefits, Pope Leo XIV warned the technology lacks the "spark of humanity" and said AI progress cannot come at the expense of human creative work.
Why it matters: The pope's framing inserts the Catholic Church as an institutional stakeholder in the generative-AI debate, lending religious-moral weight to artists' concerns that human-made work is being displaced. His call for a formal church-artist alliance signals the Vatican now treats AI's creative impact as an ethical issue, not just a technical one.
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