AI can never replace teacher-student relationship, Vatican official says
June 26, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Addressing the Internet Governance Forum, a Vatican official said that “we cannot separate reflection on technology from that on humanity.”
Msgr. Lucio Adrian Ruiz, the Argentine priest who is secretary of the Dicastery for Communication, said that AI’s impact “goes well beyond technical innovation: it concerns the human condition, culture and the meaning of civil coexistence”
Msgr. Ruiz added that although AI has benefits, “it can never replace the relationship between teacher and student in which values, critical thinking and inner freedom are transmitted.”
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