Paolo Benanti
Franciscan theologian and AI ethicist, Pontifical Gregorian University; Vatican AI adviser · as of 2026-10-07 · source
The Vatican's best-known adviser on AI ethics ('the Pope's AI guy'); toured Australia in Oct 2026 backing laws to keep big tech 'under the law'.
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- Pope Leo XIV makes AI the theme of addresses to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Sept 24) and UNESCO in Paris (Sept 25) ★★
In two speeches days before his "not fake news" remarks, Pope Leo XIV warned about AI. On Sept 24, 2026 he told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that AI "can be used for surveillance, manipulation and discrimination" and that autonomous weapons without human oversight bring "new dangers to…
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