In a first, pope plans to attend G7 | India News – Times of India

As leaders from the G7 nations gather in Italy, they will be joined for the first time, with the Holy See. Pope Francis, the Vatican announced, will take part in a discussion Friday on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence at a session.
Italy PM Meloni said the pope’s presence would “make a decisive contribution to defining a regulatory, ethical and cultural framework” for AI.The pope’s G7 presence breaks with a long tradition in the Catholic Church of refusing such invitations on the basis that a pontiff does not need state leaders or anyone else to offer him a platform to speak, said Alberto Melloni, an Italian historian.