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Good day. The Vatican has debated the ethics of artificial intelligence for years with Big Tech companies. Its new leader is making AI's potential threat to humanity a central issue of his pontificate.
Two days into his reign, Pope Leo XIV said in an address to the College of Cardinals that he chose his papal name because of the widespread changes wrought by technology, a tribute to Leo XIII who stood up for workers’ rights during the industrial revolution.
The church "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,” Leo XIV told the cardinals, who stood and cheered for their new pontiff and his unlikely cause.
This week, the Vatican is hosting executives from major tech and AI companies and has made clear its desire to see an international treaty governing the responsible use of AI. How the new Pope, a native son of one of the world’s AI superpowers, uses the church’s moral authority to push for strong rules on the technology will be closely watched.
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