From scripts to sermons: is AI going to be writing everything soon? | Margaret Sullivan

‘Resistance is futile’, wrote one AI product manager for the Associated Press in internal messages to colleagues

No one wants a soulless sermon – that defeats the purpose – and Pope Leo XIV has taken steps to ensure that Roman Catholic priests don’t deliver one.

Artificial intelligence, the new pontiff said in a recent meeting with clergy, “will never be able to share faith”, which is what giving a homily is all about. Resist the temptation and write your own words, he urged.

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