{"id":83497,"date":"2026-06-10T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83497"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:52:49","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-laughs-as-ai-forgets-he-is-the-pontiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-leo-xiv-laughs-as-ai-forgets-he-is-the-pontiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Laughs As AI \u201cForgets\u201d He Is The Pontiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/pope-leo-xiv-smiles-meeting-bishops-spain-episcopal-conference-madrid-afp-000_B6CM8J8.jpg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" alt=\"pope-leo-xiv-smiles-meeting-bishops-spain-episcopal-conference-madrid\" width=\"365\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exactly two weeks to the day after the publication of his encyclical <em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em>, which highlighted the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/tag\/leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a>\u00a0took advantage of his trip to Madrid,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/tag\/spain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a>, to provide quite an insightful &#8212; if humorous &#8212; example of its dangers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope, laughing and relaxed as he has generally been for the whole of this historic tour in Spain, recounted that before leaving on his trip, he consulted AI out of curiosity. He asked it, \u201cWhat should the pope say to the Spanish bishops?\u201d The artificial intelligence chat bot replied, \u201cPope Francis would say\u2026\u201d So, he interrupted it and said, \u201cAh, but I think there is another pope now.\u201d The AI then replied, \u201cOh, that\u2019s true, sorry, it\u2019s now Pope Leo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: Exactly two weeks to the day after the publication of his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which highlighted the opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}