教皇利奥十四世周五抵达联合国教科文组织位于巴黎的总部，提出了一个他说任何文化都不能视为理所当然的问题，即便在21世纪也是如此：什么是人？
Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human?
此次演讲是联合国教科文组织专门用于人工智能、信息完整性、教育和艺术创作的一天活动的核心内容。
The address was the centrepiece of a day UNESCO had dedicated to artificial intelligence, information integrity, education, and artistic creation.
几小时前，在爱丽舍宫，教皇利奥曾警告法国总统马克龙，要提防“机器的天堂”入侵日常生活。在联合国教科文组织，他表示新技术必须服务于人。
A few hours earlier, at the Élysée Palace, Pope Leo had warned President Emmanuel Macron against a “paradise of machines” invading daily life. At UNESCO, he said new tech must serve people.
“我们在这一领域的努力必须确保新技术始终服务于人，而不成为又一种统治和不公的工具。”他说，多年来机器已接管了许多人类任务，而现在，他补充道，其中一些甚至被称为智能，这是一个形容人类思维的词汇。
“Our efforts in this domain must ensure that new technologies remain at the service of the human person rather than becoming yet another instrument of domination and injustice.” He said machines have taken over many human tasks over the years, and now, he added, some of them are even called intelligent, a word for how people think.
“当智能被归因于计算系统时，我们却难以承认人的不可剥夺的尊严，人的生命却按效率标准被评判。”他补充道，不再被视为有生产力的人随即会被“拒绝和抛弃”。他还表示，一个人的价值不取决于他们能做什么。
“While intelligence is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognise the inalienable dignity of human persons whose lives are judged according to the criterion of efficiency.” People who are no longer seen as productive are then “rejected and discarded,” he added. He also said a person’s worth does not depend on what they can do.
随后，教皇利奥还谈到了人们如何分享新闻和事实。他说，我们交流的速度比以往任何时候都快，但并不更真实。拥有更多事实，他说，并不会让我们更明智。
Then, Pope Leo also spoke about how people share news and facts. He said we talk faster than ever, but not more truthfully. Having more facts, he said, does not make us wiser.
“人工智能放大了这一问题。尽管此类系统能关联数据，但它们无法回答关乎人类生命意义的问题，而这植根于生活体验，”他说。“意义是心灵的氧气，”他补充道。
“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,” he said.
他称追寻真理关乎正义。他还赞扬了一个联合国教科文组织项目，该项目教导人们审慎使用媒体和数字工具。教皇随后呼吁国际社会特别关注儿童和青少年。“在数字时代，他们的脆弱性绝不能成为被剥削的机会，”他说。
“Meaning is the oxygen of the mind,” he added. He called the search for truth a matter of justice. He also praised a UNESCO programme that teaches people to use media and digital tools with care. The Pope then asked the international community to pay particular attention to children and young people.
他说，科技应该帮助年轻人成长、学习、建立友谊，并保护他们独立思考的自由。
“In the digital age, their vulnerability must never become an opportunity for exploitation,” he said.
随后，教皇利奥用《圣经》中关于“巴别塔”的故事来形容“通过统治强加给人们的统一”。他表示，这种统治欲望以新的形式存在于当代的殖民主义中；无论在何处，当生命被视为可以买卖的商品时，这种欲望都会出现。
He said tech should help young people grow, learn, and build friendships, and should protect their freedom to think for themselves.
“当科学本身被简化为一种权力工具时，它就不再能够提升人类的价值了，”他说。
Then, Pope Leo used the biblical story of the Tower of Babel to describe “a unity imposed through domination.” He said the same urge shows up today in new forms of colonialism, and it also appears wherever life is treated as a thing to buy and sell.
在演讲之前，法国24电视台报道称教皇利奥预计会呼吁对人工智能（AI）进行监管。一天前，利奥曾对宗座科学院表示，人工智能给安全与国际和平带来了新的威胁。自当选教皇以来，人工智能一直是他的关注重点之一。今年5月，他发布了首份通谕《Magnifica Humanitas》，这是一封致教会的正式信函。
“Science itself, when reduced to a technique of power, no longer serves to elevate the human person,” he said. Ahead of the speech, France 24 reported that Leo was expected to call for AI regulation. A day earlier, Leo told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences that AI had brought “new dangers to security and international peace.” AI has been a key theme for Leo since he became pope. In May, he published his first encyclical, a formal letter to the Church, called Magnifica Humanitas.
联合国教科文组织表示，教皇访问巴黎期间还将与梵蒂冈就人工智能合作达成框架协议。本周早些时候，梵蒂冈还支持成立了新的国际组织AI4Peace。
UNESCO said the Paris visit would also include a framework agreement with the Holy See on AI cooperation. Earlier this week, the Vatican also backed a new AI4Peace International Association.
他的观点非常明确且令人深思：那些被设计用来解决各种问题的技术，反而被要求去做它们根本无法完成的事情；而那些真正有能力解决问题的人，却越来越被评判为“是否具有生产力”。对于一个以“每秒处理多少数据”来衡量自身价值的行业来说，“意义”显然是一个陌生的评价标准。教皇利奥的访问将持续到周日，届时他将在梅斯发表演讲。
His argument was narrower and harder to wave away: a technology built to answer nearly anything is being asked the one thing it cannot, while the people who can are increasingly judged by whether they are productive. For an industry that measures its models in tokens per second, “meaning” is an unfamiliar benchmark. His Holiness Pope Leo will continue the trip until Sunday, when he is due to speak in Metz.