Pope Leo XIV opened a four-day visit to France in Paris on Friday, September 25, 2026, with a warning that a “paradise of machines” risks undermining what it means to be human.

At the Élysée Palace, before President Emmanuel Macron and diplomats, the pope raised existential questions about the meaning of the human in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and reaffirmed the Vatican’s opposition to nuclear weapons, according to the Associated Press, via The Hindu. The schedule includes a vigil with young people, vespers at Notre-Dame and a Mass on the Place de la Concorde under Olympics-level security, with as many as a million people expected, the Associated Press reports.