Pope Francis Issues Warning About the ‘Disruptive Possibilities and Ambivalent Effects’ of AI

Pope Francis isn’t jumping on the AI bandwagon.

The religious leader is warning people about the “disruptive possibilities and ambivalent effects” of artificial technology in a statement released Tuesday in honor of World Peace Day.

While he says such advancements are having a “remarkable” and “rapid” impact on society, he cautioned people to be aware of the potentially damaging consequences of algorithm biases.

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The Pope called for “the need to be vigilant and to work so that a logic of violence and discrimination does not take root in the production and use of such devices,” adding that it can function “at the expense of the most fragile and excluded: injustice and inequalities fuel conflicts and antagonisms,” the statement read.

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