Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue
Pope Leo XIV makes the threat of AI for humanity an important problem of his estate, and challenges the technology industry from that for years the Vatican has spent.
The namesake of the new American Pope, Leo XIII, stood up for the rights of factory workers during the Gilded Age, a period in the 19th century of rapid economic change and extreme wealth inequality led by corrupt industrial thief barons.
The pope spoke with a hall of cardinals last month, said he would rely on 2000 years of social education in the church to “respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field of artificial intelligence that pose challenges for human dignity, justice and work,” reports ” The Wall Street Journal.
In attempts to form Rome’s dialogue over AI and, through association, influences of governments and policy makers, leaders of Google, Microsoft, Cisco and other technical giants flown to the Vatican to preach the good word of emerging technologies.
The Vatican has insisted on a binding international treaty on AI, something that most technical CEOs say threatens to suppress innovation.
