Pope Leo pours into business regulations and preaches the idea of an ethical AI framework to technology executives
Despite the Vatican’s lack of regulatory power, Pope Leo XIV is increasingly advocating for ethical surveillance of government and businesses just a month after his Pope.
Bishop, who was it? He was selected in May After Pope Francis’ death, a dated message was sent on Tuesday to Silicon Valley officials and Vatican officials on Friday at Holysee’s second annual meeting on AI, ethics and corporate governance held at the Vatican City Apostles Palace.
With his message, Published By the Vatican, Leo has been saying that AI technology is a great tool, but especially those who are developmentally vulnerable. Young people. AI must take into account human identity in order to work ethically, he added.
“AI, in particular generative AI, has opened up new perspectives at various levels, including strengthening research into medicine and scientific discovery, but also raises troubling questions about the impact of humanity’s openness on truth and beauty,” he said.
The Vatican does not have explicit regulatory power, but Daniel Rober, professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University, said the Holy Holy See is often lobbying foreign governments to advance its agenda.
By being ethical AI regulations Leo, a priority, takes this idea seriously by sending messages to individual Catholic and Catholic business leaders.
“Acknowledge and respect the unique characteristics of humans is essential to debate the appropriate ethical framework for AI governance,” Leo said in his message.
Leo made ethical AI a priority in his Pope, mentioning it just two days after he became Pope in his inaugural speech to Cardinals University. He is based on the legacy of Pope Francis. He was in the era when he set up a conference on AI held at the Vatican this week.
Leo also follows in the footsteps of his same name Leo XIII, who advocated better working conditions during the period of rapid industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
“He took his name because he wants to be someone commenting on the way that both AI and other technologies are changing society and that the church wants to be a voice in such a situation to defend human interests,” Rober said. luck.
Leo is advocating for ethical AI and, according to Rober, may be preparing to write a future “reminiscence” (or formal letters to all Catholic bishops) on the subject.
The absence of federal AI regulations in the United States has opened the door to state laws relating to AI, including intellectual property rights and AI transparency. Still, the Trump administration’s budget bill passed by the House of Representatives in May 10 years of moratorium It poses a threat to the patchwork of laws passed on to date regarding the enforcement of national and local AI regulations.