Francis on Friday will become the first pope to address G-7 leaders, joining a summit session dedicated to artificial intelligence.
Pope Francis is seen with Microsoft President Brad Smith; the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia; and the signatories of the Rome Call for AI Ethics on Jan. 10, 2023, at the Vatican. Pope Francis is an octogenarian who says he cannot use a computer, but on a February afternoon in 2019, a top diplomat of American Big Tech entered the papal residence seeking guidance on the ethics of a gestating technology: artificial intelligence.
His concerns center less on sci-fi movie predictions of malevolent machines, or how the possibility of sentient AI might challenge the fundamental definition of life. Rather, he has focused on the apocalyptic potential of weaponized AI. He fears the elimination of human empathy as algorithms begin to decide the outcome of everything from asylum applications to bank loans.
The Rev. Paolo Benanti — the Vatican’s leading AI expert, a Franciscan priest and a trained engineer credited with coining the term “algorethics” — last year secured a spot on theand has become a major player in the crafting of a national AI policy for Italy, a G-7 nation. At the Vatican’s request, IMB hosted aThe Vatican’s views have influenced concrete business decisions.
Vatican officials have already sounded alarms over what they view as potentially unethical uses, including the facial recognition systems deployed in the 2019-2020 crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong, as well as algorithms for refugee processing such as in Germany, where AI-fueled linguistic tests have been used to establish whether asylum seekers are lying about their places of origin.
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