Artificial Intelligence (AI)

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Human beings are meant to be actively involved in the world of creation, not just passive consumers of content generated by technology, Pope Leo XIV said. …

At the Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility of Big Tech, a keynoter posed the query, “What might we ask of Big Tech, through a Catholic lens?”

With a livestream connection, Pope Leo spoke for close to an hour with participants at the National Catholic Youth Conference meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

“AI offers both a promise to better the human condition” while also posing “danger to human work, relationships and social justice” that must be addressed.

“Children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to manipulation through AI algorithms that can influence their decisions and preferences,” the pope told academics, AI experts and professionals involved in child protection …

Two key concerns were the ethical use of AI in medicine and on preserving the personal connection between patients and their health care professionals.

“Sharing knowledge is not enough for teaching: love is needed,” Pope Leo said in an audience for the Jubilee of the World of Education.

That effort comes as more media outlets clarify their protocols for the use of AI.

Catholic schools and universities, the pope wrote, must be “places where questions are not silenced and doubt is not banned but accompanied.”

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