At UNESCO, Pope Leo XIV urges stronger cooperation to uphold human dignity in the digital age.

A shared commitment to human intelligence : meaning, truth and trust.

In a room filled to capacity, before 1,400 attendees and in the presence of the Presidents of UNESCO’s General Conference and Executive Board, both emphasized the need to reinvest in and strengthen empathy, curiosity, and critical thinking, defining traits of human intelligence, in a digital age where more and more people rely on smart machines to access information, consume data, and deploy cognitive and creative skills.

“Communication has become much faster, but not necessarily more truthful. Information is abundant, but is not synonymous with wisdom. Without a shared ethical foundation, the many channels of communication risk multiplying false information and giving currency to words devoid of meaning, there by hindering dialogue rather than fostering it,” said Pope Leo XIV.

“Artificial intelligence amplifies this problem. Although such systems can correlate data, they cannot answer questions that concern the meaning of human life, which is rooted in lived experience. Yet human beings cannot live without meaning. Meaning is the oxygen of the mind,” he added.

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