Crossfiled8 outlets · filed 25 September 2026
Pope Leo warns against AI and says technology ‘must remain at service of humans’ during first visit to France – Europe live
The pope gives landmark speech on AI development and Europe’s future Later today, Pope Leo will go to the Élysée Palace for (another) formal welcome and a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps, before visiting Unesco and delivering a speech on AI in mid-afternoon.
What the coverage shows
Most outlets frame the event as Pope Leo XIV’s four-day visit to France, with repeated emphasis on his Élysée welcome, the UNESCO stop, and the broader themes of AI, peace and Europe’s future. France 24 is the clearest source for the speech itself, saying he spoke in French about peace, artificial intelligence, France’s challenges and solidarity, and that he also condemned gestational surrogacy. The Guardian US foregrounds AI with the quoted line about a “paradise of machines,” while the New York Times and Washington Post alone frame the trip around France’s secularism and the church’s standing.
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