Paolo Benanti, the Pope’s Friar Adviser in Artificial Intelligence: “Those Who Control AI Can Control Much of Our Lives”

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Between faith and algorithms, the priest and adviser of the Vatican in artificial intelligence, Paolo Benanti, said that the real discussion about AI is not technological, but political, ethical and democratic. In line with Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, published less than a month ago, he warned about the concentration of power in the hands of a handful of companies, questioned the neutrality of artificial intelligence an…