I just thought it was funny to see the Pope in a funny jacket.'" These realistic images are not the first to be widely shared and to strike up conversations online, as the use of AI to create ...

The pope is familar with AI and its risks of deepfakes. In 2023, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket went viral. "The results that AI can produce are almost indistinguishable ...

(Credit: Markus Schreiber/AP.) Listen Pope Francis says AI – artificial intelligence – poses “a unique set of questions and challenges” for humanity. In a message sent to the 2025 World ...

"Technological developments that do not improve life for everyone, but instead create or worsen inequalities and conflicts, cannot be called true progress," the pope said in a message to the World ...

Pope Francis warned on Thursday of the dangers of misinformation and its spread via social media and artificial intelligence (AI), cautioning it could be “misused to manipulate minds”.