Trump praised by faith leaders for AI leadership as they warn of technology's 'potential peril'

Evangelical leaders praised President Donald Trump for his leadership connected artificial intelligence ("AI") successful an unfastened missive published past week, portion cautioning him to guarantee the exertion is developed responsibly.

Dubbing Trump the "AI President," the religious leaders wrote that they judge Trump is determination by "Divine Providence" to usher the satellite connected the aboriginal of AI.

The signatories said they are "pro-science" and afloat enactment the advancement of exertion which benefits their ain ministries astir the world. 

"We are besides pro-economic prosperity and economical enactment for America and our friends. We bash not privation to spot the AI revolution slowing, but we privation to spot the AI gyration accelerating responsibly," the missive says.

A radical of religion leaders penned an unfastened missive to President Trump informing astir the ethical implications of unchecked, rapidly processing artificial intelligence. (iStock)

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The religion leaders warned astir the exertion advancing astatine an out-of-control gait that could origin "potential peril" for mankind.

They cited concerns raised by manufacture leaders Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Sam Altman, informing that AI would take jobs away successful astir industries and could yet origin quality suffering.

The U.S. should not hesitate successful its efforts to "win the AI race," the pastors told Trump, but cautioned that triumph mustn’t travel astatine immoderate cost.

"As radical of faith, we judge we should rapidly make almighty AI tools that assistance cure diseases and lick applicable problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that cipher knows however to control," the missive states.

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman person some warned astir the imaginable dangers of AI. (Getty Images)

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"The spiritual implications of creating quality that whitethorn 1 time surpass quality capabilities raises profound theological and ethical questions that indispensable beryllium thoughtfully considered with wisdom. One does not person to beryllium spiritual to admit religion arsenic a benignant of compounding contented implicit the centuries, and virtually each spiritual traditions pass against a satellite wherever enactment is nary longer indispensable oregon wherever quality beings tin unrecorded their lives without immoderate guardrails," the leaders wrote.

They urged Trump to make an advisory assembly oregon delegate authorization to an existing bureau oregon assembly "which would convene leaders who volition wage attraction particularly not lone to what AI CAN bash but besides what it SHOULD do."

A radical of 18 pastors and religion leaders signed connected to the letter, which was spearheaded by salient Christian leaders, Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, and Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Council.

The missive comes weeks aft Pope Leo XIV compared the advancements successful AI to the Industrial Revolution and called connected the Catholic Church to confront the challenges AI poses to quality dignity, labour and society.

Pope Leo XIV addressed AI's challenges for humanity. (Vatican Media)

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In April, Trump signed an enforcement bid to instrumentality AI acquisition successful the schoolroom to make "educational and workforce improvement opportunities for America’s youth."

The AI order, Trump's latest pro-AI measure, established a White House task unit for AI and acquisition that volition enactment with national agencies and the backstage assemblage to assistance draught AI programs for schools.

Fox News' Alec Schemmel and Emma Colton contributed to this report.