Pope Leo XIV assured the Holy See’s “presence and openness to dialogue, especially in this epochal turning point” in a message to the AI for Good Global Summit, which concludes today in Geneva, Switzerland.

Artificial intelligence has come to define the Pope’s pontificate, influencing his decision to choose the name Leo because of the parallels he sees between its impact and that of the Industrial Revolution during the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII, most recently in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.