AI could create a ‘paradise of machines,’ Pope Leo warns in urgent message to the world

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Pope Leo XIV issued a dire warning about AI this week, echoing widespread worries that the technology is moving too quickly with too little oversight. Leo turned his comments to the threat of AI after meditating on the ways that technology can be abused to power global conflict. "Our efforts in this domain must ensure that new technologies remain at the service of the human person, rather than becoming yet another instrument of domination and injustice," Leo said.

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• At the same time, however, our ideas and relationships risk being impoverished by a process of dehumanization.
• He continued: "Over the centuries, many tasks once performed by human beings have been entrusted to machines, whose capabilities and applications have continued to expand.
• More recently, certain artificial systems have even been given the name of our human faculty of thought: intelligence.
• While 'intelligence' is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognize the inalienable dign...