Pope Francis to meet President Biden at G7 meeting in Italy

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis is scheduled to take a seat down with U.S. President Joe Biden and eight different heads of state in a sequence of personal bilateral conferences throughout the Group of Seven (G7) summit being held in southern Italy June 13-15, in line with a scheduled printed by the Vatican Secretariat of State.

The pope may also deal with authorities leaders and representatives of European and worldwide organizations throughout an “outreach” dialogue on synthetic intelligence June 14, and he’ll meet privately with the top of the Worldwide Financial Fund.

The pope is scheduled to reach by helicopter in Borgo Egnazia within the Puglia area at 12:30 p.m. native time June 14. He will probably be welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as Italy is internet hosting the annual summit this 12 months.

Pope Francis will then maintain his first sequence of bilateral conferences with: Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the Worldwide Financial Fund; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; French President Emmanuel Macron; and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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After delivering a speech throughout the session dedicated to synthetic intelligence, the pope will maintain a closing sequence of bilateral talks with: Kenyan President William Ruto; Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi; Biden; Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

On the Salesian College in Rome final Tuesday, June 4, the pope instructed journalists, “On the G7 we’ll talk about synthetic intelligence but in addition about peace.” He additionally remarked to some buddies that “we should talk about pure intelligence earlier than we talk about synthetic intelligence.”

The pope is scheduled to depart earlier than 8 p.m. native time to return to the Vatican after 9 p.m.

The G7 is made up of america, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Nice Britain. The European Union additionally takes half in all discussions via its delegates: the presidents of each the European Council and the European Fee.

The host nation normally invitations different leaders to participate in a number of the G7 classes and this 12 months, Pope Francis, King Abdullah II of Jordan and the leaders of Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Mauritania and different international locations had been scheduled to attend.

Though President Javier Milei of Argentina will probably be current as a visitor on the G7 assembly, America has discovered he didn’t request a bilateral assembly with the pope. The 2 had a personal dialog within the Vatican on Feb. 12 after the canonization of Argentina’s first lady saint, Mama Antula.

“That is the primary time a Pontiff is taking part within the work of the Group of Seven and this could solely deliver status to Italy and all the @G7,” Meloni wrote on X April 26 in a posting that included a video announcement.

Within the video, she referred to as synthetic intelligence “the best anthropological problem of our time,” and one requiring authorized mechanisms to make sure it’s “human-centered and human-controlled.”

The prime minister mentioned that in discussing the difficulty, she would love the federal government leaders to profit from the moral reflections that the Vatican has been selling since 2020 with its “Rome Name for AI Ethics,” a undertaking coordinated by the Pontifical Academy for Life that has been signed by prime leaders of Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and different main gamers within the area.

America’s Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, contributed to this report.