The continuous evolution ofartificial intelligence, which is reaching increasingly high standards in content generation (as evidenced by the integration of plugins on Bing Chat), is also worrying Pope Francis. The fears of the European Union, the US administration and other international authorities were not enough. Warnings are also coming from the Vatican: this is what the Dicastery said in view of the World Day of Peace.
Even Pope Francis fears AI
As taken from Courier Communications, the Pontiff intends to solicit a more open dialogue on the objectives of artificial intelligence, considered a technology “with disruptive potential and ambivalent effects”. In particular, the Dicastery reports that the significant advances in AI could have an increasingly profound and particularly negative impact on society. In order to ensure its correct functioning, it is necessary to supervise and operate “so that a logic of violence and discrimination does not take root”.
The Dicastery therefore added: “Protection of the dignity of the person and care for a fraternity effectively open to the entire human family are essential conditions for technological development to contribute to the promotion of justice and peace in the world”.
Warnings therefore come from the Holy See regarding the ethical implications of AI, especially emphasizing the risks and abuses of AI in the promotion of justice and possible enforcement amid international armaments and conflicts. The goal of Pope Francis and the Vatican? Promote an “algoretic”, avoiding “suppressing the human in a sort of dictatorship of technology that upsets humanity itself”.
After all, with regards to the protection of citizens’ privacy there are always doubts: the way in which Zoom uses user data to train AI is only one reason to fear the exploitation of this technology which, however useful and promising, could compromise the safety of Internet users.