Do you know that dad Leo XIV chose his name thanks to AI?

The new and recently chosen pontiff of the Catholic Church, the American Robert, prevailed, chose his name as Pope Leo XIV thanks to AI. But not as you imagine.

The point is not that Prevost asked Chatgpt after the conclave and asked for a name, rather, it has a deeper meaning.

What is Leo XIV with AI

Pope Leo XIV considers the growth of AI as a similar moment of quick social changes.

In his speech in a cardinal college on Saturday, Leo XIV explained the choice of his name, clearly mentioning the parallels of these two catastrophic eras:

Feeling a calling to continue the same path, I decided to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historical encyclical Rerum Novarum He considered the social problem in the context of the first major industrial revolution. Nowadays, the Church offers all the treasures of its social doctrine in response to a new industrial revolution and events in the field of artificial intelligence, which raise new problems to protect human dignity, justice and work.

Pope Leo XIII was known for focusing on social inequality and labor rights during the period of industrialization, when employees moved away from certain crafts and agricultural work and switched to mass production plants in difficult conditions and low wages.

In the case of Leo XIV, human work is in some way threaten or is at risk from a large -aircraft holding, which wants to automate many functions of collective production.

According to the employment report in 2025 at the World Economic Forum, 41 percent of employers intend to reduce their labor in favor of automation of tasks with AI. And the International Labor Organization published a report of 2024, in which the “invisible work” of the development of AI and low wages and the limited protection of these employees stands out.