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Last summer, guides represented 11 global religions from the eastern faith, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrism and Bahá'í to Abrahamic religions comparable to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, gathered in Hiroshima, Japan and signed the Rome call to AI ethics.
Why did the representatives of those considering schools, that are sometimes thus far apart, sign this appeal for a human approach to technology development? Because they share concerns in regards to the way humanity is influenced by artificial intelligence.
I used to be present on the signing and experienced an environment of the collaboration. Those who’re present desired to contribute to a future during which no technological innovation could ever be used for mass destruction.
The moment of change that we’re exposed is so profound that we could compare its possibilities and crises with the Renaissance – a time of the disorder and transformation that destabilized the established order of the medieval world. The European firms shifted from a worldview that focused on Europe and the Catholic Church, with latest countries, peoples and resources. The religious unity of Europe fragments and a brand new economic order destabilized traditional structures.
In the past centuries, the church has modified its view of technology: today it’s seen as an agent of social transformation, the consequences of which must be managed. Technological innovation is seen as an element of social justice and never as a dogmatic problem. The church doesn’t consider AI as a danger (as was the case with Galileo's telescope), but it surely calls on belief to ask itself again what it means to be human and what place man consists of living beings and intelligent machines on this latest cosmos.
It is due to this fact our responsibility to ask what the proper use of AI should appear to be. We experience the birth of a brand new sentence of creeds that change the border of the existential horizon. In Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel's interpretations of the late Stanford professor René Girard suggests that conflicts are inevitable. Elon Musk promotes so-called post-humanism, during which individuals with technology merge. The computer scientist Timnit Gebru has proposed TESCREAL – a neologism for philosophies that imagine a way forward for improved people, and strikes that harmful projects are justified by the chance of the extinction of man.
In the words of the late Pope Francis: “We don’t live any era of change, but an era change.”
Francis' successor continued to emphasise the importance of AI. In considered one of his first speeches, he explained the importance of his decision to take the name Leo XIV. This referred to Leo XIII, who headed the church after the commercial revolution and spoke against the inequality and support of employees. Pope Leo has identified the border of a brand new industrial revolution. Today it’s AI and never lines of assembly that advance contemporary social change.
This yr, the Vatican organized Google, Meta, Anthropic and Palantir Manager at a conference on AI, ethics and company management.
The Church hopes to make use of its social doctrine to guard human dignity and work. This just isn’t a political ideology, but a theological and moral reflection that results from the Christian faith – numerous principles, teachings and guidelines which have been developed when it comes to social, economic, political and cultural problems within the contemporary world. It just isn’t only shared for Catholics, but in addition with the remaining of society.
In our modern period of collective disorientation, the Catholic Church and other religions see themselves because the companions of those that are in search of importance.
