Artificial Intelligence (AI)

What does the bishop of Silicon Valley have to say about Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” on artificial intelligence?

“It’s a very good initiative of the pope and very useful for him and for the unity of the Church.”

One research paper identified what it called the “omissive bias” displayed by large language models with respect to religion.

Recursive self-improvement is “effectively the creation of an automated AI engineer, or many, many, many automated AI engineers.”

The U.S. bishops in a message to Pope Leo XIV June 10 thanked him for his new encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” and for shining “the light of the Gospel” on AI.

The Eastern Catholic perspective on the encyclical is crucial to understanding Pope Leo’s call to ground artificial intelligence in God-given human dignity.

Unlike digital systems, the pope said, the Gospel’s algorithm leads believers, including bishops, to love people and to accompany them.

Daniel J. Daly, founding executive director of the Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health, shared his thoughts on AI in healthcare and Pope Leo.

The encyclical is “a defining document of our era,” Paolo G. Carozza, professor of law and political science at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News.

As a small group of tech companies race to dominate the artificial intelligence era, much of the world has been left wondering whether ordinary people have any voice in the …