Pope Leon: Do not speak to your God-made girlfriends or you will face painful consequences

In his message on the World Social Communications Day, the pope said that in today's digital world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern whether you are communicating with real people or robots. He stressed the urgent importance of <x0] the preservation of human voices and faces”, warning that without real relations there can be no real friendship or relationship.

“Faces and voices are sacred,” said the pope, adding that digital technology risks changing the foundations of human civilization.

Pope Leon XIV admitted that chatbots with Him can be fun, but he considered them to be fraud, especially the most vulnerable. According to him, because they are always present and emotionally “dear”, they can affect the emotional state of individuals and invade the realm of personal privacy.

He also warned that replacing human relations with artificial intelligence systems could harm not only personal life, but also society's social, cultural and political structure.

The pope also criticised the algorithms of social networks, saying they favour rapid emotions and undermine critical thinking, increasing social polarisation.

However, he stressed that digital innovation should not be stopped, but must be carefully directed, aware of its dual nature.

This is not the first Vatican warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. In 2024, Pope Francis had stated that the simulation technologies become dangerous “when distorting our relationship with reality and with each other”, demanding more arrangement by AI to avoid harmful and discriminatory consequences./Periscopi/