Pope Francis: AI increases social inequalityBy ASSOCIATED PRESShome/News/World/Pope Francis: AI increases social inequalityVATICAN: Pope Francis on Friday (Saturday in Manila) warned tech company executives, diplomats and financiers that the race to create artificial intelligence and other forms of digital development poses the risk of increasing social inequality unless the work is accompanied by an ethical evaluation of the common good. Francis addressed a Vatican conference that brought government envoys and Facebook and Google representatives together with philosophers, physicists and ethicists. A smattering of academics and Catholic bishops rounded out participants at “The Common Good in the Digital Age” conference. In his speech to the conference, Pope Francis praised the potential of technological progress, noting that machines at the dawn of the industrial revolution spared workers dangerous and monotonous labor. “If technological advancement became the cause of increasingly evident inequalities, it would not be true and real progress,” he warned.

Source: Manila Times September 28, 2019 18:39 UTC