New Pope Lion Fourteen quotes Ai’s challenge to human dignity, his name choice
The new pope’s name choice has symbolic significance for the values he wishes to emulate in recognition of the most pressing issue he believes is the leader of the Catholic Church.
For Pope Leo Fourteen, artificial intelligence is at the heart of his name choice.
The new pope was born in Robert Francis Prevost, who presided over the Catholic Church during the Industrial Revolution, and he chose his pope name, and his Pope Leo XII (1810-1903) occupied the Catholic Church, which brought about massive social unrest. Pope Leo XIV believes that AI prosperity is a similar moment of rapid social change.
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Leo explained his name choice in his speech to Cardinal College on Saturday, explicitly referring to the similarities between the two disaster times:
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I know I’m on the same road, and I choose to name it after Leo. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XII in his historic encyclopedia novarum Social problems were solved in the context of the first major industrial revolution. In our own days, the Church provides everyone with the treasury of her social teaching to deal with another industrial revolution and provides new challenges for the development of the field of artificial intelligence to defend human dignity, justice and labor.
Pope Leo XIII was known for focusing on social inequality and labor rights during the industrialized period, as workers escaped from their personal craftsmanship and farm work and entered large-scale production plants under harsh, low-paying conditions. However, he also emphasized personal human rights and rejected socialism. Leo XII, in his encyclopedia or formal letter to the Catholic Church, called for a balance between “the duty and right of capital and labor”, which is also his subtitle novarum address.
For Leo XIV, following in the footsteps of a previous social reformer is a powerful message on the AI industry and its impact on the global workforce.
Modern society has seen the impact of artificial intelligence through replacement work and data-marking journalists’ exploitation. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Employment Report, 41% of employers intend to reduce the size of their workforce to use AI to automate tasks. The ILO published a 2024 report focusing on the “invisible labor” of artificial intelligence development and the low wages and limited protections of these workers.
The Catholic Church has weighed other consequences of AI. Leo’s former Pope Francis released a message in January 2024 warning that AI is “a distortion of reality by partially or completely false narratives, believing and broadcasting as if they were real.” Recently, the last speech before Pope Francis’ death reflected the technology that replaced human interaction.
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