Pope Francis calls for binding global treaty to regulate AI

https://www.reuters.com/technology/pope-calls-binding-global-treaty-artificial-intelligence-2023-12-14/

by klibertp • 3 years ago

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klibertp2• 3 years ago

Francis called for ethical scrutiny of the "aims and interest of (AI's) owners and developers" warning that some applications of AI "may pose a risk to our survival and endanger our common home," a reference to the earth.
"In an obsessive desire to control everything, we risk losing control over ourselves; in the quest for an absolute freedom, we risk falling into the spiral of a 'technological dictatorship,'" he wrote.

giardini• 3 years ago

How about a " binding global treaty to regulate God"?

Seems that would be more useful in today's political climate. Maybe a "Conference of Gods", since each apparently has a different idea of what lies in the future?

- Went to the church yesterday but, as usual, He was out.

klibertp2• 3 years ago

I'm just as much of an atheist as the next (not you, not you, not you either, oh, here you are) person, but I'm even less of a capitalism believer. Like it or not, the Pope is rather famous - in a completely different way than the one measured in likes and retweets. He has a chance to be heard by those who would never hear the voice of this or that technologist. And if we want any kind of "ethical scrutiny" of the "aims and interest of (AI's) owners and developers" (i.e., the likes of Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc.) to actually ever happen and have any kind of effect, we need the support of as many people as possible.

I'm not a doomer or anything, but companies like Microsoft or Meta need to be watched closely, especially when they get their hands on some breakthrough. If this breakthrough is big enough, then maybe "maximizing value for shareholders" and "extracting every penny of value from it" are not the greatest responses to what are their "aims and interests".

reducesuffering• 3 years ago

Here comes the quips about how Pope Francis is seeking to regulatory capture AI so his own company can succeed...

Pope Francis calls for binding global treaty to regulate AI

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