The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
AI “must be at the service of all, and of the common good,” the pope said
The pontiff presented his encyclical at the Vatican alongside AI experts.
Rite and Reason: Magnifica Humanitas considers what it might mean to safeguard the best parts of being human in the time of artificial intelligence
Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.
“It’s not about AI. It’s about protecting the human person in the age of AI.”
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it no…