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Recently, Pope Leo XIV delivered a personal message to Silicon Valley executives, academics, and Vatican officials gathered in Rome for a conference on artificial intelligence. He encouraged them to follow a human-centric “ethical criterion” in AI development that would account for “the well-being of the human person not only materially, but also intellectually and spiritually.” Addressing the representatives of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Palantir, he warned of AI’s danger to the “intellectual and neurological development” of children, and “the possibility of its misuse for selfish gain at the expense of others, or worse, to foment conflict and aggression.”
Despite what any Silicon Valley sage may tell you, no one person or company really knows exactly how humanity will adapt—or not—to this world-changing technology. Every technology needs guardrails. But there is no central conversation about managing AI development—it’s millions and millions of conversations happening at warp speed around the world. Governments and businesses will have to work together to protect people from potential economic or even societal collapse, especially as artificial general intelligence (AGI) looms closer. Pope Leo’s bold entry into these discussions is an opportunity to cut through the noise. His advice helps distill the most important elements of a sensible response to AI’s exponential development—and point the way to practical, ethical guardrails.
Pope Leo has taken an urgent interest in the global challenge of AI from the very beginning of his papacy, explaining to an audience of cardinals in May that he chose his papal name to honor Pope Leo XIII, who used his position to speak up for workers during the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century. Leo XIV wants to guide the Catholic Church as it “offers its trove of social teaching to respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field of artificial intelligence that pose challenges to human dignity, justice and labor.”
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Despite what any Silicon Valley sage may tell you, no one person or company really knows exactly how humanity will adapt—or not—to this world-changing technology. Every technology needs guardrails. But there is no central conversation about managing AI development—it’s millions and millions of conversations happening at warp speed around the world. Governments and businesses will have to work together to protect people from potential economic or even societal collapse, especially as artificial general intelligence (AGI) looms closer. Pope Leo’s bold entry into these discussions is an opportunity to cut through the noise. His advice helps distill the most important elements of a sensible response to AI’s exponential development—and point the way to practical, ethical guardrails.
Pope Leo has taken an urgent interest in the global challenge of AI from the very beginning of his papacy, explaining to an audience of cardinals in May that he chose his papal name to honor Pope Leo XIII, who used his position to speak up for workers during the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century. Leo XIV wants to guide the Catholic Church as it “offers its trove of social teaching to respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field of artificial intelligence that pose challenges to human dignity, justice and labor.”
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