Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be “disarmed,” adding that humans “have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications.” In Friday’s Papal Address, Pope Leo encourages United Nations member states to “take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons” during their meeting in Geneva next month.
The address reflects many of the ideas Pope Leo laid out in his first major papal document in May, which highlighted “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” In line with his encyclical, Pope Leo tells participants that “Machines are tools, not persons,” and warns about the dangers of granting AI systems rights or legal personhood. “Decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must always remain subject to effective, informed, and responsible human oversight,” Pope Leo says.
In 2024, Pope Francis similarly called for a ban on autonomous weapons, saying, “No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being.” AI has become a popular topic for Pope Leo, who suggests he chose his name because he must confront advances in the technology — similar to how Pope Leo XIII presided over the church at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.
Pope Leo closes out his address by calling for international institutions to safeguard the common good from AI-related risks, along with “shared standards, independent oversight and clear mechanisms of accountability so that decisions concerning the development and use of AI can be examined, challenged when necessary, and accompanied by appropriate remedies for any harm caused.”
“But AI doesn’t kill people, people do…”
So charge those people with war crimes!
We can’t do that, it was the AI’s fault!
Ai for war is not at all good idea 💀
Comment section seems a bit “euphoric” today. Lemmy, your reddit is showing.
Indeed.
Applicable to all religions, and all religious people
Im not Happy about using AI for war,but that is because war exists, I’d like AI to be FOSS and accesible locally for everyone.
Oh geez, now he’s making me want to be pro-AI.
He’s such an idiot, I generally do the exact opposite as the pope. I don’t even molest children.
Your hate blinds your heart
Hold opinions on what you believe, not on what you think would spite your enemies.
Holy shit take batman
Have you not heard about the catholic church?
I sure have! Have you heard of correct things being said by bad people? Just because they are bad doesn’t mean they are incorrect on a specific point
Did you ever consider what the world could be like if apathetic people did not support bad people?
Who said anything about support? Acknowledging the correctness of his statement isnt tantamount to supporting the church
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
The enemy of my enemy might also be my enemy
pedophiles are not my friend.
Saying all priests are pedophiles because of a small amount of pedophiles that were in the church is like saying all teachers are pedophiles
Orange Bible when?
Everyone wants the Butlerian Jihad until the Butlerian Jihad is actually here.
Sounds like something an Ixian would say.
But corporations are people? They have more rights than women these days.
But corporations are people
That’s another concept that needs to cease to exist.
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They’re juridical entities,akin but not exactly people.
They still have rights and obligations but they’re not people in the strict sense, you cant incarcerate a corporation.
Call the llm it or this, something non-human, “this machine is wrong, check again or give more sources.” Ask them to use Sagan’s baloney detection kit and high levels of perry’s scheme of thinking to examine things, detect unfalsifiable things like the Invisible Dragon story.
Can he not pray this bs away?
Machines are not persons yet.
“AI has become a popular topic for Pope Leo, who suggests he chose his name because he must confront advances in the technology”
I think he’s the tool, making a song and dance about anything aside from the horrific global corruption and human suffering he is the overseer of.
He just just loves throwing stones from his glass city state immune from the law.
Let’s get the opinion of the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew and Kirill for good measure, maybe JK Rowling too.
I’m not Catholic but I might just be willing to convert
Marketing types must love you.
And I love them
I love cats if it helps
