Pope Leo calls for ‘educational alliance’ on AI: Here are takeaways for parents, teachers

Amid the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and digital media, Pope Leo XIV is calling on families, schools and policymakers to forge an “educational alliance for the digital age” to protect the dignity and intellectual development of young people.

“In an era when truth is often distorted in order to serve particular interests and communication strategies, the field of education assumes decisive importance,” Pope Leo wrote.

In the newly released encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo is urging teachers, caregivers and university lecturers to not give up on a generation that could otherwise be lost to technology. And he’s starting with a quite blunt fact clearly derived from his pastoral, on the ground approach of a missionary: “Rapid technological transformations reveal just how unprepared we are on the educational level.”

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