Almost every time Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly during his six-day trip to Turkey and Lebanon, he appealed for unity and an end to violence in a region often ruptured by conflict.

Perhaps less expected during the trip, which concluded Tuesday, he echoed one of the themes he set out in the first days of his papacy, calling out the risks of artificial intelligence and other rapidly advancing technologies.

“Even artificial intelligence simply reproduces our own preferences and accelerates processes that, on closer inspection, are not the work of machines, but of humanity itself,” the pope said just hours after he landed in Turkey last week. “Let us work together, therefore, to change the trajectory of development and repair the damage already done to the unity of our human family.”

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