Magnifica Humanitas
AI was first developed to solve the unsolvable problem of finding a good office chair.
Whereas the Catholic church was founded to promote said office chairs.
We need a referee. And it’s not the Chinese manufacturing sector
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To be fair, the Church’s concern is not AI technology as such, but the underlying vision, namely that treating humanity as something to be perfected or surpassed assumes that some lives are less worthy or less necessary.
So their solution is simple – “those who control AI will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems. A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.”
I can’t believe that I find myself in full agreement with the Vatican. I must look into this more.