In Vatican Address, Pope Leo Denounces AI-Generated Art: ‘The Church Needs Artists’

In a Friday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo told artists and curators that the Church needs them, especially in the age of AI. The pontiff weighed in at the very moment when some experts are predicting that artificial intelligence could wipe out humankind within a decade, and just three days after US president Donald Trump rallied some of the world’s top architects of frontier AI models at the White House to sign an agreement to regulate themselves.The pope spoke to the artists and curato