Pope Francis takes half in a working session on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Energy, Africa-Mediterranean on the Borgo Egnazia resort throughout the G7 Summit in Savelletri close to Bari, Italy, on June 14, 2024. (AFP Photo)
Pope Francis on Friday warned of the potential risks from synthetic intelligence (AI).
Addressing a session devoted to AI, Pope Francis underlined that AI signifies “a true cognitive-industrial revolution” which is able to result in “complex epochal transformations,” in accordance with the official Vatican News company.
Acknowledging that the transformations have the potential to be helpful by democratizing the entry to information, advancing the scientific analysis, and decreasing the demanding and arduous work, Francis additionally identified the potential unfavourable penalties similar to inflicting the larger injustice between superior and creating nations or between dominant and oppressed social lessons.
The pope additionally underlined that the algorithms utilized by synthetic intelligence to reach at selections are “neither objective nor neutral.”
“Algorithms can only examine realities formalized in numerical terms,” Francis mentioned.
Furthermore, he emphasised that AI is all the time formed by the worldview of those that invented and developed it.
“Against this background, what is needed is the development of an algor-ethics, a series of global and pluralistic principles which are capable of finding support from cultures, religions, international organizations and major corporations,” the pope remarked.
Source: www.anews.com.tr