Pope Leo XIV makes the threat of AI for humanity an important problem of his estate, and challenges the technology industry from that for years the Vatican has spent.
The namesake of the new American pope, Leo XIII, stood up for the rights of factory workers during the Gilded Age, a period from the end of the 1870s to the late 1890s of rapid economic change and extreme wealth inequality led by corrupt industrial thief.
The pope spoke with a hall of cardinals last month, said he would rely on 2000 years of social education in the church to “respond to another industrial revolution and to innovations in the field of artificial intelligence that pose challenges for human dignity, justice and work,” reports ” The Wall Street Journal.
In attempts to form Rome’s dialogue over AI and, per association, governments and policymakers influence, leaders of Google, Microsoft, Cisco and other technical giants have flown to the Vatican to preach the good word of rising technologies.
The Vatican has insisted on a binding international treaty on AI, something that most technical CEOs say threatens to suppress innovation.
