"It’s going to be very difficult to discover the presence of God in AI."

If anybody is thinking of making an AI version of the Catholic pope, please don't.

That's the message from the newly-minted Holy Father himself, Pope Leo XIV, who emphatically slapped down the idea of a digital simulacra masquerading as himself.

"Someone recently asked authorization to create an artificial me so that anybody could sign on to this website and have a personal audience with 'the pope,' but this artificial intelligence pope would give them answers to their questions, and I said, 'I’m not going to authorize that,'" he said.

"If there’s anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the pope is high on the list," he continued in an excerpt for a planned biography, according to Crux , a

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