Pope Leo tells kids: ‘Don’t let AI do your homework’

We’ve probably all done it. You know the deadline’s coming. You haven’t done the preparation.

Then before you know it, it’s the night before that essay you put off researching is due – so you turn to ChatGPT to help you out.

But parents may be on their kids’ backs more than ever about (not) using AI for school now that the Pope has warned against it.

Today (Friday, November 21) he told around 15,000 young Americans that while artificial intelligence is a useful tool for learning, they shouldn’t use it for their homework.

In a live video transmission from the Vatican to a national Catholic youth conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, Pope Leo said AI is ‘becoming one of the defining features of our time’.

He told them: ‘Using AI responsibly means using it in ways that helps you grow. Don’t ask it to do your homework for you.’

Leo, the first American pope, spoke for around 40 minutes in the first such event of his six-month papacy, answering questions about the Catholic faith and giving advice on how to make friends in school.

He’s certainly been a busy man since being appointed one of the world’s most powerful people in May following Pope Francis’s death.

Last week, he was given a copy of the book La Via delle Spezie (The Spice Route) by British supermodel Naomi Campbell.

He met King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Vatican in October and even looked set to become 2025’s most unlikely fashion icon.

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