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Matthew McConaughey<\/a>‘s greeting with Pope Leo XIV in Italy earlier this month has sparked political ambitions for the actor.<\/p>\n

McConaughey spoke to USA Today<\/a> about his conversation with the pope and shared whether his conversation with the religious figure swayed his stance on taking political office.<\/p>\n

McConaughey describes himself as politically centrist, and he considered running for Texas governor in 2021. He has also advocated for bipartisan gun-safety measures following the 2022 Uvalde school shooting.<\/p>\n

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“Look, I\u2019m going to use this word \u2018religion,\u2019 even though some people are going to tune out when they hear that word,” McConaughey told the outlet. “Life is essentially a religious experience<\/a>. There\u2019s a lot of things we can learn about living life \u2013 how to treat others and how to treat ourselves \u2013 through religious texts and teachings. Even though I agree with the separation of church and state, the values of those should bleed down into the values of any political system.”<\/p>\n

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He added, “There\u2019s still a constitution out there to be written that all religions could agree on. There’s so much commonality. It\u2019s a constitution that I\u2019m excited about seeing \u2013 I don’t know, maybe even adding to or working on. That would be a great thing to share.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in the interview, McConaughey told USA Today that he didn’t prepare for the conversation, but knew some topics he wanted to discuss with the religious figure.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s kind of like preparing a speech for winning an award that you don\u2019t know you\u2019re going to win yet. It\u2019s a bit of a coup de gra\u0302ce: Don\u2019t do it because it\u2019s not going to go as you expected,” McConaughey said.<\/p>\n

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The actor continued, “So I had some ideas. I wanted to talk to him about religion in today\u2019s world and where it sits with him as our moral compass. Where is religion today? Why has it declined? Why do we see a surge in youth running toward it? They\u2019ve tried other things that they’re seeing are vapid and don\u2019t really work because they\u2019re looking for more.”<\/p>\n

McConaughey told the outlet that young kids today are “looking for some structure; they\u2019re trying to get more than what the world around them has given them.”<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s a good reason to pick some things out of religion, for sure,” he added.<\/p>\n

McConaughey also brought up artificial intelligence<\/a> during the conversation, per USA Today.<\/p>\n

“What are the standards going to be with AI?” McConaughey asked.<\/p>\n

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“There are already people looking to AI as their digital God. Whether we like what it looks like or not, it is going to represent a true image of mankind by the questions we ask of it and the results we want of it. We may not like what we see when we look in the mirror, but we could also love what we see. It could be a greater truth,” McConaughey continued.<\/p>\n

“So there\u2019s great upside and I\u2019m excited about it,” he added, clarifying his stance on AI. “At the same time, there\u2019s a definite need for caution going forward because we\u2019re going to have to be the users of that tool and not let it tool us, so to speak. So those are the subjects, and what we got to talk about will be between [the pope] and I.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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