CHA has warned AI technologies can offer significant benefits but can also carry novel risks that could cause significant harm. Image: Adobe Stock. Catholic Health Australia has urged practitioners to exercise careful management in the use of Artificial Intelligence technologies that it says can offer significant benefits but can also carry novel risks that could cause significant harm. ...

Cardinals attend the presentation of "Magnifica Humanitas" at the Vatican's Synod Hall on 25 May 2026, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV's papacy, which focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. When Pope Leo XIV walked into the Vatican's Synod Hall on 25 May to present his first encyclical in person, the international press lined up ...

Copies of "Magnifica humanitas" are seen at the Vatican's Synod Hall on 25 May 2026, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV's papacy, which focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. "Every person is unique and irreplaceable, a free and intelligent subject with a conscience, capable of seeking God, serving one another, caring for our common...

Pope Leo XIV has expressed interest in the issue of artificial intelligence and the dignity of work since the first week of his pontificate. Photo: Adobe. By Courtney Mares Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, will be published May 25, addressing artificial intelligence and the protection of human dignity, the Vatican has announced. The encyclical, the title of which ...

The University of Notre Dame Australia has launched its new Centre for Technology and Human Futures, an important initiative dedicated to exploring human‑centred approaches to AI, emerging technologies and the futures we create.  Launched in partnership with the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at the University of Notre Dame (USA), the Centre will be led by Asso...

By Courtney Mares Pope Leo XIV has urged the media to show the human face of suffering amid war and to verify news so as not to recirculate "propaganda" or become a "mouthpiece for those in power." Pope Leo XVI addresses broadcast journalists who produce the TG2 news programs for the Italian state-owned television channel, Rai 2, during a March 16, 2026, audience in the Clementine Hall o...

By Carol Glatz Humanity must not allow technology, especially AI, to obscure, exploit or suppress human voices, needs, knowledge, talents, creativity and critical thinking abilities, Pope Leo XIV has said. Algorithms designed to maximise engagement on social media can lock people into "bubbles" of easy consensus and rage, weakening people's ability to listen and think critically, and inc...

The efficiency gains when using AI within a new trial teaching assistant will allow teachers to get back hours each week to reinvest into direct interaction with their students in ways only teachers can.