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Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology 'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about'

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Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology 'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about' - Discuss Online

Pope Leo XIV has rejected the idea of an AI Pope, saying in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen that “if there’s anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the Pope is high on the list” (first spotted by The Register). Pope Leo, who is forthright about his views on the new technology, also said that he had been asked for his authorisation to create an AI Pope “Someone recently asked authorization to create an artificial me so that anybody could sign onto this website and have a personal audience with ‘the Pope’,” said the pontiff. “This artificial intelligence Pope would give them answers to their questions, and I said, ‘I’m not going to authorize that’.”

Sep 23, 2025 at 1:40pmWeb
Show threadDominusOfMegadeusSep 23, 2025
Show threadJasonDJSep 24, 2025
I was thinking Rev. Lionel Preacherbot was about to get a promotion.
Show threadIninewCrowSep 23, 2025

‘an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about’

The Catholic Church has already done that job

Show threadRooskie91Sep 23, 2025
Yeah and they want to keep their corner on the market.
Show threadslaneesh_is_rightSep 23, 2025
If AI starts to fuck children, what would even be the point of going to church
Show threadjosefoSep 24, 2025

They have a smaller carbon footprint [1]. They are the environmentally friendly option.

[1] citation needed

Show threadDiplomjodlerSep 23, 2025
Takes one to know one.
Show threadpanda_abyssSep 23, 2025

Why would the idea of an AI Pope even make it to the pope?

The pope is supposed to be God’s messenger on Earth, the idea that man creates its own messenger in place of the one God selected is obviously a huge sin of pride.

Now I don’t know that the pope is in fact chosen by God, I’m not even confident in the idea of God, I’m just saying the idea itself is an affront to Catholicism.

Edit: Space Pope might be skirting a technicality here, but I don’t think you can do AI pope even in space.

Show threadtheUwUhuggerSep 23, 2025

A manmade messenger to replace a manmade messenger! As there is no miracle elected the new pope but a popular vote decided by deals and schemes of our red friends

Overall I support ai pope, cause it would be funny

Show threadJessvj93Sep 23, 2025
Already saw a church make use of an AI Charlie Kirk to give a sermon they made up. Dangerous road were on when even Jesus himself can start being used to give whatever twisted message these people using AI are trying to do. Why they ask a living pope tho, is weird.
Show threadGrimySep 23, 2025

I think AI will lead to a lot of disillusionment in society. If the church can grab Charlie Kirk’s image and have him say whatever they want, chances are they are doing that same with the word of God.

It might seem obvious to us that the church is bullshit, but it isn’t for the older generations.

It’s a bit like how my grandma started assuming every phone call is a scam since AI came out. Half of them were scams before too but she used to just barrel into them.

Show threadpanda_abyssSep 23, 2025

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them

That sounds like creating a graven image and bowing down to it to me…

(I also like the part where God says if you have to build a stone alter, using a carved/hewn stone is polluting his work)

Show threadonslaught545Sep 23, 2025

These people are Christian in name only. They only care about the Bible when they can use it to justify their selfishness and hatred.

Shit, the Bible says in multiple places that life begins at first breath and even has instructions for an abortion ritual, but it won’t stop them from using their religion to push their pro forced birth agenda.

Show threadpanda_abyssSep 23, 2025

A lot of this is why I can’t call myself any religious sect.

I grew up in the catholic and united church and a bit of Calvinism. The United church was full of fantastic community minded people.

But eventually I grew agnostic developed the opinion that if there is a god (and there’s no way of knowing) and they care more about rituals and symbols than how you live, then I don’t really care what they think.

The older I get the more I look at Jesus and feel that guy seemed pretty great. I like what he teaches: treat everyone equal and nobody is beneath you, treat people how you’d like to be treated, love your neighbour, accept strangers. That’s a solid foundation to live by whether you believe in a god or not.

Then I look south and I just feel gross with how so many evangelicals live their lives. It blows my mind 80%+ of them voted for Trump.

Show threadWesDymSep 23, 2025
@Jessvj93 They've been using Jesus the same way for two millennia now.
Show threadjayboneSep 23, 2025
Pretty sure the pope is not chosen by god. He’s chosen by cardinals.
Show threadCassandererSep 23, 2025
Heretic!
Show threadLumpyPancakesSep 23, 2025
Tweet tweet!
Show threadGrimySep 23, 2025
“it’s not personal enough. You can’t feel the touch of god through a computer. A priest can’t feel his congregation needs or the soft skin of a little boy through a keyboard. It’s an affront to Jesus, pure heresy”
Show threadJusticeForPorygonSep 23, 2025
Rare Pope W
Show threadOptionalSep 23, 2025
AI Pope just really giving it to humanity here and B’GAWD! It’s The Real Pope with a folding chaaaaiiiirrrr! Oh! Oh My!
Show threadFaceDeerSep 23, 2025

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama has said that he might reincarnate as a computer someday once they're powerful enough.

Until we can build a PKE meter to actually measure whether souls are present in particular objects it's just duelling religion.

The 14th Dalai Lama talks about the possibility of his reincarnation into a computer

YouTube
Show threadLumpyPancakesSep 23, 2025
He better watch out for Winamp!
Show threadSwedneckOct 12
tibet in 2077
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1cb-m9JwQ
【Delay Lama Original】FIRE TEMPLE 【Hige Driver】

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Show thread_‌_反いじめ戦隊Sep 23, 2025
Child abuse?
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

Show threadPennomiSep 23, 2025
Just go to the Pope’s manager like I did. I just asked Jesus if I could make an AI of him and he totally said yes.
Show threadGorditoSep 23, 2025

"Alright guys, it’s hard to get on the news with everything going on in the world. What’s gonna go viraaaaal??? I want it to be shared eeeeverywhere! We’re gonna be the next scabbadiddle on tiki tak. Can we come up with something about AI? That’s a word people are using a lot these days and brings attention! Ok, perfect let’s circle back later this afternoon with your best catchy and attention grabbing headlines people!!"

  • Vatican PR team consiglieri
Show threadSapphironZASep 23, 2025

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”

I guess the pope is a fan of Frank Herbert.

Show threadCassandererSep 23, 2025

Why is that news? What makes you think the pope would have an AI pope?

Dumb headline.

Show threadfakeplasticSep 23, 2025
The church is grift, AI is grift.
Show thread𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠Sep 23, 2025
Apparently someone asked him if they could create a website with an AI Pope Leo that could answer questions.
Show threadZacryonSep 23, 2025
True. AI doesn’t fuck children.
Show threadCaptain AggravatedSep 24, 2025
I’m sure they’re working on that.
Show threadUltraMagnus0001Sep 23, 2025
He says a lot of nice stuff and seems to be a little progressive, I hope he follows through.
Show threadJackbyDevSep 23, 2025
The idea that AI can interpret scripture is funny to me. It’s almost like it’s an admission there are no divine insights to be made. Though I suppose people could believe God talks to/works through machines.
Show threadthelittleerikSep 24, 2025
Although the comment is true. The irony writes itself when you realize, so are religions.
Show threadParagoneOct 5

Brains!!

He’s got brains!!

GOOD!!

( in spite of his view that Jesus’s “the 2nd law is love your neighbor as your brother” doesn’t apply to the alphabet-soup LGBTAgnosticAnglicanWavyhairedNordicTechno-listeningWhatever people ( I’m just being silly, catty, & fey, since if the gays have the right to be that way, then us cishet guys do too!

so THeRe, eh?

: p

There is NOTHING in the new-testament which showed that benJoseph was committed to destroying people born wired into other genders, that I know-of,

so therefore the positions of the “churches” is standing entirely on stuff that isn’t of their root-guru, benJoseph,

but is in the rest of the book, which their root-guru identified as “mostly rules made by men, not G-D”, in their own new-testament.

Should their root-guru return, he’s promised ( Matt 24, iirc ) to return outside their churches, & we’ll see how conforming-with-the-churches-he-isn’t-of that he’s going to be, won’t we?

Should their root-guru return, that is. )

Here’s their root-guru quoting Isaiah, saying that people are taking as G-D’s religion rules made by men, which is exactly the point I’m trying to get known…

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+15%3A7-…

Pruning-out the non-universal stuff, there is actually little left, of any religion, & it’s all principles, not culturally-formed-traditions…

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Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 15:7-14 - Complete Jewish Bible

You hypocrites! Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me. Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’” Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand this! What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!”

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