In French in front of Emmanuel Macron and the diplomatic corps, the pope made AI the heart of his first speech of a four-day visit to France, and called for binding international rules.
Arriving in France on September 25, 2026 for a four-day visit, Pope Leo dedicated his first speech to artificial intelligence. Speaking in French before the President of the Republic and the diplomatic corps gathered at the Élysée Palace, he warned that a "paradise of machines" risked undermining the place of humans: his fear, he said, is that we will lose our humanity in the midst of machines that invade and condition daily life.
The day before, at the Vatican, he had made a more nuanced speech on the technological background: AI can benefit humanity, but it introduces "new dangers to security and international peace", hence his call for leaders to "govern wisely". His address to UNESCO headquarters in Paris reiterated the demand for binding international rules on the development of AI, insisting on one criterion: that new technologies remain at the service of the human person rather than becoming an instrument of domination and additional injustice.
Warning about the risks of AI has become a central axis of this sixteen-month pontificate, and this trip to France is the broadest forum to date.
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