Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new president for the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, a bioethics think tank that Catholic conservatives criticized under Pope Francis for departing from official church teaching on issues such as contraception and euthanasia.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell and producer Ricardo da Silva, S.J., answer listener questions about the conclave and the first month of Pope Leo XIV.

Ethicists, philosophers and tech moguls themselves have warned of the risks of companies creating intelligent life forms. Billionaire X owner and developer of AI bot Grok Elon Musk has cautioned against "summoning the demon" through the reckless development of artificial intelligence, likening it to the creation of "a digital God."