christiantoday.com
2025-02-03
A new Vatican missive approved by Pope Francis has warned of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), while also stressing that, ultimately, it is human intelligence that will guide the morality of its use.
The result of a collaboration between the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education, and drawing on a number of recent addresses by the pontiff, Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence exhorts "those entrusted with transmitting the faith" as well as "those who share the conviction that scientific and technological advances should be directed toward serving the human person and the common good" to remain aware of the distinction between human intelligence and AI.
Calling AI a "part of the collaboration of man and woman with God", the missive quotes Pope Francis in warning that "the very use of the word 'intelligence' in connection to AI 'can prove misleading'".
"In light of this, AI should not be seen as an artificial form of human intelligence, but as a product of it," the document states.