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Pope Leo explains name: AI, worker rights

In World
May 10, 2025

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the United States, appears on the balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025.

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Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that he selected his papal name in part to commemorate Pope Leo XIII for his commitment to social problems and the duration of workers’ rights, the industrial revolution.

Leo said that the world now faces new obstacles to workers’ rights, and humanity more widely, due to the emergence of artificial intelligence.

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Leo’s comments provided one of the first indications of their leadership vision and priorities as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Leo also suggested the duration of his first meeting with the cardinals from his choice that the leadership of the late Pope Francis would follow his commitment to social justice.

“It has leg clearely see in the Example of So many of my predecessors, and most recently by Francis Himself, with His Example or Complete dedication to service and to arrogant simplicity of life, his abandonment to God’s time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time of the time OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME OF THE TIME TIME.

Francis, who was Pope for 12 years, to obtain criticism from the conservative cardinals who said he was watering the church’s doctrine on issues such as LGBT Catholics and women’s leadership.

Leo XIII, the partial inspiration for the name of the new Pope, was chosen in 1878. It was a prominent figure in the social education of the Catholic Church, particularly around the rights of workers and the working class.

Leo is the first American pontiff of the Catholic Church.

Reuters contributed to this report.