The president of Pontifical Academy for Life will each speak to Vatican news about the ethical and anthropological challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for awakening humanist Europe before technology speeds up.
Delphine Allaire – Vatican City
Pope Francis’s already substantial education on artificial intelligence, the Pontifical Academy focuses on bioethics, and Vatican groups focusing on issues related to bioethics have been spurred by the most direct people. It has reflected this technological revolution for several years. This is explained by a meeting between Microsoft’s president and president, as explained in Vatican News. With 50,000 engineers based in Seattle (USA) working under the orders of innovation, Brad Smith admits to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia that he often blurs the boundaries between machine and humanity and makes them more visible. They called for “church help” to better define it.
This concern discovered an immediate response from Pope Francis. As a result, the “AI Ethics Rome Call” signed in Rome on February 28, 2020, was signed with the support of the Pontifical Academy for Life for Life by Microsoft, IBM, FAO and the Italian governments. . Since then, many other signatories have been involved in the initiative. This includes 16 representatives of various religions who gathered near Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Japan) on July 10, 2024, the California-based company Cisco, and the Church of England a few weeks ago. Masu.
Religion’s contribution to shaping the ethics of AI
Though not part of the Pope’s magicians like the Notes of Antiqua and Nova, Roman calls equally reflect the sacred Shee desire to support human centrality in this new technology frontier. To emphasize this, Archbishop Paglia introduced “Algor Ethics” as a counterpoint to “Argorathy.” This refers to the tyranny of algorithmic computation beyond the author’s control.
In this respect, religion helps instill ethical perceptions of AI among major companies and policymakers alongside universities and the wider society. The Italian Archbishop defends ethical and legal regulations established, particularly through international agreements on the management of big data.
“I dream of an agreement similar to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which is particularly dedicated to the emerging and convergence of artificial intelligence,” he says, challenging the G20 and the United Nations “on responsibility.” Masu.
Save the humanist anthropology of Christianity
Pope Francis, who sat between Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron, called for “a space for significant human control” over AI in June last year, was the G7 under Puglia’s Italian presidency. It was within the framework. “The real risk is to technologicalize humans instead of humanization,” Archbishop Paglia warns, calling for a restoration of humanism. “Let all science come together, just like in the Renaissance era: believers and non-believers, poets and physicists, philosophers and theologians. We all invent alliances that will help save humanity. It has to be.”
The church is very responsible for this field, recalled Archbishop Paglia, who recited from the beginning that the word logos became the flesh. “It didn’t become an avatar,” he says, citing the disturbing predictions of Japanese physicist Hiroshi ishiguro at a Vatican conference several years ago. Ishijima, who created his own clone, is assumed to be the last organic generation of today, and then a synthesis made up of lithium or other materials. “We will face a fundamental change in the meaning of being human,” Archbishop Paglia noted.
European responsibility
To raise awareness and promote an ethical approach to AI, the high priests travel around the world presenting the Therome Call initiative, as they did in India just a year ago. In the world’s most populous country, Monsignorparia gathered bishop signatures and became the first Anglican assembly to support the text. Today, India is co-chairing the Paris AI Summit. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher represents the Holy Sea.
A careful observer of these events in the French capital, Archbisop Paglia Paglia has great hopes for Europe. “Europe has a unique sensitivity thanks to humanist traditions that are two or three thousand years ago. They must be integrated into this world of technology that has evolved primarily in China and the United States,” he said. I’ll point it out. According to Monsignor Paglia, although they are at a disadvantage from a resource perspective, the Old Continent must take great responsibility for the development of technology and scientific research in order to integrate them into the anthropological realm. It warns that this is an essential condition. ” Otherwise, the speed of technology is at risk exceeding slow humanism and slow regulation.” Regulation “may be disproved.
