Pope: Communication must respect truth of human person
As the Church celebrates the 60th World Day of Social
Communications, Pope Leo XIV encourages Catholics to help direct technological
innovation toward the truth of the human person.
By Devin Watkins
The Catholic Church marked the 60th World Day of Social
Communications on Sunday, May 17.
Speaking at the Regina Caeli prayer, Pope Leo XIV recalled
the World Day and encouraged everyone to promote forms of communication that
always respect the truth of the human person.
He pointed to the vast advances in technology in recent
years regarding communication, and called for technological innovation to be
directed toward the good of humanity.
“I encourage everyone to commit themselves to promoting
forms of communication that are always respectful of the truth of the human
person, toward which every technological innovation should be directed,” he
said.
Pope’s message for 60th World Communications Day
Pope Leo XIV released his Message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications on
January 24, focused on the theme: “Preserving Human Voices and Faces.”
In his message, the Pope said faces and voices are sacred,
since God created human beings in His image and likeness.
“Each of us possesses an irreplaceable and inimitable
vocation, which originates from our own lived experience and becomes manifest
through interaction with others,” he said.
However, he said, new digital technologies threaten our
uniqueness by simulating voices, faces, and emotions.
“By simulating human voices and faces, wisdom and knowledge,
consciousness and responsibility, empathy and friendship,” he said, “the
systems known as artificial intelligence not only interfere with information
ecosystems, but also encroach upon the deepest level of communication, that of
human relationships.”
The real threat to humanity is our willingness to offload
our ability to listen and think critically to AI and social-media algorithms,
said the Pope in his message.
“We are thus robbed of the opportunity to encounter others,
who are always different from ourselves, and with whom we can and must learn to
relate,” he said. “Without embracing others, there can be no relationships or
friendships.”
In response, Pope Leo XIV encouraged people to embrace
responsibility, cooperation, and education in our interactions with AI and one
another.
“The digital revolution requires digital literacy, along
with humanistic and cultural education,” he said, “to understand how algorithms
shape our perception of reality, how AI biases work, what mechanisms determine
the presence of certain content in our feeds, what the economic principles and
models of the AI economy are and how they might change.”
“We need faces and voices to speak for people again,”
concluded Pope Leo’s message. “We need to cherish the gift of communication as
the deepest truth of humanity, to which all technological innovation should
also be oriented.”
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