“Like any product of human creativity, AI can be attracted to a positive or negative end,” Francis said in January. “When used in ways that respect human dignity and promote the welfare of individuals and communities, it can contribute positively to human professionals. Still, as in all areas where humans are called to make decisions, the shadow of evil is also allowed here.
History repeats with new technology
Although Pope Francis led the demand to respect human dignity in the AI, it is worth looking a bit deep towards the historical inspiration for the selection of the name of Leo XIV.
In the Encycloic Rehram Noorum of 1891, before that Keo XI directly competed directly to his wage stirring Industrial RevolutionWhich created unprecedented wealth and productivity But with severe human expenses. At this time, the factory conditions had created the Pope Is called “So much illicit pressure and misery on the majority of the working class.” Workers faced 16 hours of days, children’s labor, dangerous machinery and wages that barely maintained life.
In 1891, the Encycloped the Catholic Social theory suggests that the rights of unions, the rights of residential wages and resting on Sunday. Liu Xiii argued that Labor has a hereditary dignity and employers have imposed moral responsibility on their workers. The document created modern Catholic social education and influenced the labor movements around the world, which was established as a lawyer for the workers caught between the industrial capital and revolutionary socialism.
Just as mechanization affected traditional wages in the 1890s, artificial intelligence is now Likely to risk employment patterns And Human dignity In ways that Pope Liu XIV believes the church demands similar moral leadership.
“In our own day,” Liu XIV concluded in his formal address on Saturday, “The church offers each one of his social education in response to another industrial revolution and offers progress in the field of artificial intelligence, which is to defend human dignity, justice and labor.”