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At a Buenos Aires gathering, workers' accounts of organizing and community service precede the pope's appeal for an economy centered on human dignity.
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- 12:35Union delegate Sabrina Sapone connects worker dignity with representation built on listening and the challenges of artificial intelligence.
- 16:04Verónica San Martín describes cooperative organizing and calls for urban recyclers to be recognized as workers.
- 19:48Soledad Cuéllar explains how community work creates both livelihoods and a sense of personal capability.
- 26:08Leo begins his address, arguing that economic activity should serve people and uphold the dignity of work.
- 45:02The pope urges employers and unions to pursue the common good while addressing artificial intelligence's workplace risks.
- 49:30Leo says technology must remain subordinate to ethics and algorithms cannot replace human discernment.
Technology must remain subject to ethics, and an algorithm cannot replace human judgment: that is Pope Leo XIV's message to employers, union representatives and community workers gathered at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires.
The recording from RTVE Noticias, the news service of Spain's public broadcaster Radio Televisión Española, gives substantial space to the workers before the pontiff speaks. Their accounts connect his argument about economic dignity to workplaces, street recycling, classrooms and Indigenous community projects.
Sabrina Soledad Sapone, a lawyer and union delegate from Avellaneda, describes representation as a responsibility built on listening and empathy rather than simply holding office. She raises the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and argues that work should enable a dignified life, not consume it.
Verónica San Martín, an urban recycler from La Plata, describes organizing through a cooperative and insists that people recovering discarded materials deserve recognition as workers. Soledad Cuéllar, from the Ava Guaraní community in Pichanal, Salta, explains her work with Hogar de Cristo Santa Clara and the Ñande enterprise. She presents earning a living as also discovering what one is capable of doing, then gives the pope a handmade hat and embraces him.
Teacher Magalí Jojot, from Paraná, calls for an economy with a human face, drawing on her experience working in a disadvantaged neighborhood.
Leo begins his address about 26 minutes into the recording. He argues that the economy should serve people, rather than people serving the economy, linking the dignity of work to unemployment, exclusion and the ecological crisis. He also recognizes household labor alongside Argentina's contributions to science and agriculture.
His appeal is directed at both businesses and unions: pursue the common good. He describes the state's role as enabling the work of organizations between individuals and government, rather than doing everything itself. Returning to technology, he places ethical responsibility and human discernment above automated decision-making.
The gathering closes with the Lord's Prayer, an apostolic blessing and gifts, including a handmade poncho from Salta.
A private Argentine university whose main campus is in Buenos Aires’ Puerto Madero neighborhood. It also has campuses in several other cities.
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Which technology's workplace risks feature in this gathering?
Both union delegate Sabrina Sapone and Pope Leo XIV address artificial intelligence's implications for work.