CreativityPope Leo XIV calls on the church and artists to join forces against AI art

Pope Leo XIV said on October 2 that in the age of AI it is becoming urgent to tell human art from what machines produce, and called for the church to ally with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard humanity. He wrote that there is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine generates through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity," he said.

He issued his first encyclical on AI in May. A report that an Anthropic co-founder proposed pulling out of its launch event spread again this week.