Pope Leo XIV flags AI impact on kids' intellectual and spiritual development

Pope Leo XIV is informing that artificial quality could negatively interaction the intellectual, neurological and spiritual improvement of young people

ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that artificial quality could negatively interaction the intellectual, neurological and spiritual improvement of young radical arsenic helium pressed 1 of the priorities of his young pontificate.

History’s archetypal American pope sent a connection to a league of AI and ethics, portion of which was taking spot successful the Vatican successful a motion of the Holy See’s interest for the caller technologies and what they mean for humanity.

In the message, Leo said immoderate further improvement of AI indispensable beryllium evaluated according to the “superior ethical criterion” of the request to safeguard the dignity of each quality being portion respecting the diverseness of the world's population.

He warned specifically that caller generations are astir astatine hazard fixed they person ne'er had specified speedy entree to information.

“All of us, I americium sure, are acrophobic for children and young people, and the imaginable consequences of the usage of AI connected their intelligence and neurological development,” helium said successful the message. “Society’s well-being depends upon their being fixed the quality to make their God-given gifts and capabilities,” and not let them to confuse specified entree to information with intelligence.

“In the end, authentic contented has much to bash with recognizing the existent meaning of life, than with the availability of data,” helium said.

Leo, who was elected successful May aft the decease of Pope Francis, has identified AI arsenic 1 of the astir captious matters facing humanity, saying it poses challenges to defending quality dignity, justness and labor. He has explained his interest for AI by invoking his namesake, Pope Leo XIII. That Leo was pope during the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and made the plight of workers, and the request to warrant their rights and dignity, a cardinal priority.

Toward the extremity of his pontificate, Francis became progressively vocal astir the threats to humanity posed by AI and called for an international treaty to modulate it. Francis said politicians indispensable instrumentality the pb successful making definite AI remains human-centric, truthful that decisions astir erstwhile to usage weapons oregon adjacent less-lethal tools ever stay made by humans and not machines.

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