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Artificial Intelligence to Take Center Stage During Leo XIV’s Visit to UNESCO in Paris

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Pope Leo XIV will visit UNESCO in Paris on September 25, focusing on artificial intelligence challenges, especially for young people.
  • The visit will be the first by a pope to UNESCO in 46 years and will include a youth forum, meetings and a speech.
  • UNESCO officials said the visit will support multilateral cooperation, AI regulation and messages of peace and unity.

Artificial intelligence will dominate Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to UNESCO, where the organization hopes his voice will strengthen its efforts to guide the debate over the technology. The pope will travel to the agency’s Paris headquarters on September 25, in the first papal visit there in 46 years.

The program will begin with the UNESCO Forum for Youth in the Digital Age, a discussion built around Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas.” Young people, experts, artists and politicians will take part in panels and roundtables examining the challenges posed by AI and the points of convergence between the pope’s outlook and UNESCO’s mandate.

A strong reminder that today’s challenges must be faced by all countries together.

· Matthieu GuévelUNESCO’s communications director described the significance of the pope’s visit and its multilateral message.

Leo XIV will arrive in the afternoon for a 90-minute visit. He is scheduled to tour the headquarters, including an exhibition on peace featuring drawings by children from around the world, before addressing UNESCO staff, forum participants and other guests in a speech lasting about half an hour. He will also meet UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany, with whom he previously discussed AI during the Egyptian former minister’s visit to the Vatican in June.

UNESCO communications director Matthieu Guével called the visit “a strong reminder that today’s challenges must be faced by all countries together.” Deputy Director-General for Communication and Information Mariya Gabriel said UNESCO occupies “a unique place to respond to questions about AI.” The organization also expects the pope to deliver a message of peace and unity in an increasingly polarized world, including through a symbolic gesture at UNESCO’s peace olive tree.

A unique place to respond to questions about AI.

· Mariya GabrielUNESCO’s deputy director-general for communication and information described the organization’s role in the AI debate.
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