Pope Francis challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies Friday to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence, warning that such powerful technology risks turning human relations themselves into mere algorithms.
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00:00In the face of the prodigies of machines that seem to be able to choose independently, we
00:16must be clear that the human being must always remain the decision, even with the dramatic
00:26circumstances with which sometimes this occurs in our life.
00:34We will condemn humanity to a hopeless future if we subjugate people to the ability to decide
00:46on themselves and on their lives, condemning them to depend on the choices of the machines.
00:54We need to guarantee and protect a significant space of control of the human being on the
01:01process of choosing artificial intelligence programs.
01:06It is about human dignity itself.
01:09Let me insist, in a drama such as that of armed conflicts, it is urgent to rethink the
01:18development and use of devices such as the so-called autonomous lethal weapons to ban
01:26the use, starting already from a fateful and concrete commitment, to introduce an ever
01:34greater and significant human control.
01:38No machine should ever choose whether to take life from a human being.
01:47It is up to everyone to make good use of it, and it is up to politics to create the conditions
01:54for such good use to be possible and fruitful.
01:59Thank you.