Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical
The Vatican said the group will guide an ethics-based approach to AI as Leo’s first encyclical is expected to address human dignity, labor and peace.
- On Saturday, the Vatican announced Pope Leo XIV has established a study group on artificial intelligence as he prepares to release his inaugural encyclical emphasizing ethics-based approaches to the technology prioritizing human dignity and peace.
- This initiative follows 135 years after Pope Leo XIII dated his seminal encyclical "Rerum Novarum," or Of New Things, which addressed workers' rights, capitalism's limits, and labor justice during the Industrial Revolution.
- President Donald Trump's administration prioritizes rapid AI development as vital to national security and economic strategy, having rejected international regulatory efforts and removed domestic bureaucratic roadblocks slowing advancement.
- Addressing the "inhuman evolution" of warfare in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, the Pontiff recently described a "spiral of annihilation" resulting from new technologies and conflict during an address at Sapienza University.
- Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan of Notre Dame suggested the Catholic Church aims to be the "adult in the room" by offering its "treasury of its social teaching" to guide AI ethics discussions.
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He believes that it is about caring for people's dignity.
In this era of artificial intelligence, I encourage all to engage in promoting forms of communication always respectful of the truth of man to which to direct every technological innovation. Thus, Pope Leo XIV at the end...
Observador
sabado.ptThe Pope has demonstrated, since the beginning of the pontificate, his attention to AI and has foreseen the publication of an encyclical on the subject.
In the AI revolution, Leo XIV wants a third way between Terminator and Wall-E
The anniversary of Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum came and went last week, without a successor encyclical for our time from the reigning pontiff. Instead, we learned that Leo XIV signed his first encyclical on Friday, May 15, exactly 135 years to the day after his predecessor and namesake, Leo XIII, signed his seminal social encyclical. Leo XIV’s encyclical has been highly anticipated both in the Church and in the broad world, especially after the pon…
The Independent
The Independent (US)Pope Leo launches Vatican group to study impact of AI on ‘human dignity’
Comes as the Pontiff prepares his inaugural encyclical underlining need for ethics-driven approach to AI
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