(Web Desk) - Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholic priests to resist the “temptation” to use artificial intelligence to write sermons.
The Chicago-born pontiff, who is the first head of the Catholic Church to hail from the United States, also urged his fellow clergymen to “use your brains more.”
The pope made the remarks during a closed-door meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome on February 19. The details of the meeting, in which the pope took questions from priests, were unsealed the next day and reported by Vatican News.
During the meeting, the pope told listeners that giving a “homily is to share faith,” before arguing that artificial intelligence “will never be able to share faith.”
“Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die,” he warned. “The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity.”
The 70-year-old also took aim at social media platforms and asked members of the clergy to be mindful about chasing “likes” and “followers” through an “illusion on the internet, on TikTok.”