Meta, Google and Amazon Meet Pope Leo XIV on AI Child Safety in Rome

8 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · May 25

Meta, Google and Amazon representatives held talks in Rome with Pope Leo XIV and Vatican officials on protecting children in the age of artificial intelligence.
A brief encounter with Leo at the Vatican was followed by hours of discussion at the French embassy to the Holy See, where the companies and church officials examined how AI should be judged and governed.
Paolo Ruffini, the Vatican’s top communications official, joined the meeting, underscoring that AI oversight has quickly become a central issue in Leo’s early papacy.
The talks brought Silicon Valley’s fast-moving AI agenda into direct contact with one of the world’s oldest moral authorities as pressure grows for clearer safeguards around children.

Can the Vatican's ancient wisdom truly guide Silicon Valley's fast-evolving AI, or is this a fundamental moral mismatch?

If AI lacks true moral understanding, can any human ethical code really prevent it from causing unforeseen harm to society?