Pope Francis: Pontiff AI and which dealt with the madness of the digital world

A heavy blow woke up in the world this Monday, April 21, since the Vatican reported on the death of Horcha Mario Bergolo, Pope Francis, the first Latin American and Argentinean pontiff and whose papacy was marked by a very convulsive era, with digital times, when the AI ​​appeared, where the screens became a problem and social networks that were not determined.

And during his papacy, which began on March 13, 2013, the Jesuit Bergolo was surrounded at times when the Internet grew up on jumps and borders, with the greatest problem for a conservative institution such as a Catholic Church: the appearance of AI.

Something, which even influenced this personally:

Pope Francis and his exposition with artificial art

It was March 27, 2023, ten years after the start of his papacy, when several images began to flood the Internet: Pope Francis was shown with a colorful Balenciaga Park, which led to the discomfort of the believers.

A photograph taken using the Midjourney program began to virize on social networks, and Francisco himself had to go to tell about an object and artificial intelligence:

“I am convinced that The development of artificial intelligence and automatic learning can positively contribute to the future Humanity, ”said dad in his speech.

But he said that “at the same time (…) This potential will be made only if there is a permanent and consistent obligation Those who are developing these technologies to act ethically and responsibly. ”

In this regard, he showed his concern that “Digital technologies have increased inequality in our world” And he raised several questions: “Can our national and international institutions own technological companies for the social and cultural impact of their products?”

“Is there a risk that an increase in inequality is our sense of human and social solidarity? Can we lose the feeling of a common destination?“He asked.

The real goal, he said: “It must be the growth of scientific and technological innovation is accompanied by great equality and social integration.”

He also emphasized that “the concept of internal human dignity requires us to recognize and respect the fact that The fundamental value of a person cannot be measured only using data“

“In the process of making social and economic decisions,” he continued, “We must be careful when delegating the judgments of algorithms that process dataOften presumably compiled, about the composition and previous human behavior. ”

And added: “We cannot allow the algorithms to limit or the condition for respect for human dignityOr exclude compassion, mercy, forgiveness and, above all, the hope that people will be able to change. ”

Pope Francis and his recommendation to leave mobile phones

This was in 2015, in the framework of World Social Communications, held by the Catholic Church, which Pope Francis called on the families to put aside his mobile phones and Twitter accounts again.

“The big task we are facing today is to find out again how to talk to each other, and not just how to generate and consume information,” and added that the media can facilitate or complicate the communication of families, helping relatives in remote places to stay in contact, but also allow others to ignore each other.

“Today, the most modern media, which are integral, especially for the youngest, can both complicate and help communicate in the family and between families,” said Papa.

“The Internet is a gift from God”

But in his passage through the throne of Peter, Pope Francis recognized several times that the Internet “was gift from God”, and which was used in a good way, and with the correct intentions it can be very useful for humanity.

In fact, during their period in the Vatican, they began in 2023, satellite Equipped with nano which contains a tiny version of the famous prayer on Hope and Brotherhood, fed by Pope Francis on March 27, 2020in front of San Pedro, completely devastated pandemicField

A satellite, which is part of the Vatican space mission, baptized as “Spei Satellles” (Hope satellites) were sent into space from the Vandenberg base in California (USA).

“The launch of Nano -book to Space seeks to serve A symbol of hope in heaven, invisible to the eyes, but not to the heart From which he wants to go to the future of the brotherhood and share, inspiring himself at that time, ”the Vatican explained.

Cubesat, a small cubic satellite of less than 3 kilograms, was blessed by Pope Francis on March 29 and is already on the way to a heliozonic orbital level, about 525 kilometers from the surface of the Earth.

“The message of Pope Francis in space serves as a sign and representation of tenderness and blessings for the world,” said the secretary of the Vatican communication, Lucio A. RuisField

But this is not all, in his pepat, he also consecrated the first holy influence of the Catholic Church.

This is about Carlo AkutisYoung fifteen years old, an Italian computer scientist who was beaten by a Catholic Church in Assisi, the provinces of Peruja, Italy in 2020, and which died in 2006 from a leukemia. Since then, his image has been associated with several miracles in different parts of the world.

Acutis has created websites that document the alleged miracles and were called the “influential God” since his death.

Akutis, born in 1991, created an online exhibition about Eucharistic miracles, which was launched shortly before his death in 2006. The Eucharist is the practice of a sacred participle consuming bread or owners and wine, that Catholics believe that they literally become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the process called transformations. Practice celebrates the last dinner when Jesus ate with his disciples the day before before he was betrayed and crucified.

The first miracle attributed to Acutis occurred in 2013 and was recognized as a dad in 2020. This miracle included a child in Brazil, which, according to reports, was healed from a rare condition of the pancreas.

The second miracle included a 21 -year -old young woman on a Costa -Ricks named Valery Valverde, who studied in Italy, where acutis lived. Valverde was injured in 2022 as a result of an accident on a bicycle, and he had to go through the operating room, but his mother went to pray to the grave of Carlo Akutis, where his body was publicly exhibited.

“Six days after the accident, Valeria’s mother was in pilgrimage to Assisi, to pray for the healing of his daughter in the tomb of the blessed Carlo Akutis, leaving a written note. On the same day, Valeria began to breathe for herself, and the next day she restored the use of her upper extremities and partially restored speech. Valeria was discharged from the intensive care unit 10 days after the pilgrimage of her mother and was subjected to more evidence, which showed that the right temporal hemorrhagic concussion in her brain completely disappeared. Contrary to medical forecasts, Valeria spent only one week in the field of physiotherapy, and on September 2, 2022, two months after her accident, she sawed the grave of Carlo Akutis in Assisi with her mother to celebrate her full healing. For the Church, a young man is “an example of the fact that technology can be very positive,” says Catholic news agencyField

According to Pope Francis himself, the young man: “He knew how to use new communication methods to convey the Gospel, transfer values ​​and beauty,” he said.