Pope Leo XIV, who has warned of the risk that AI could lead the world down a path of unending war, has urged the development of artificial intelligence systems that do not foster divisions in society but strengthen peace initiatives.<\/p>\n
“In a world marked by conflict and division, the development of Artificial Intelligence calls for a vision inspired by wisdom and charity,” the pontiff said in a message to a conference on AI issues held in Rome.<\/p>\n
The pope called for development of AI systems that “serve the dignity of every person and strengthen the bonds that unite the human family”.<\/p>\n
Leo, the first US-born pope, has made addressing the possible dangers of AI development a major theme of his 16-month-old papacy, first discussing the issue publicly on his third day as pope.<\/p>\n
In his first major document, issued in May, he warned that AI systems spread misinformation and prioritise conflict. He urged international regulation of the industry.<\/p>\n
Today’s conference, hosted at Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, is titled “AI4Peace.”<\/p>\n
Speakers include US economist Jeffrey Sachs, Rome city council president Svetlana Celli and Francisco Rojas Aravena, rector of the UN’s University for Peace, based in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n
Pope Leo’s brief message was read aloud to attendees by Rev Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV, who has warned of the risk that AI could lead the world down a path…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-632789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}