What the Pope said about AI and why it matters | The Global Story

As a legal researcher - some of us have been sounding the alarm for past 5-10 years about embedding unregulated advanced technologies into our societies and control being in hands of profit driven corporations and autocrats. Protection of public interest is imperative.

Billionaires, like Jeff Bezos, intend to use AI to replace the expenses of human workers.

The kingdom of God is a spiritual realm populated by beings with souls ,moral agency ,and the capacity to love ,repent and worship, because AI operates strictly on data and algorithms without an inner life ,it has no capacity for these spiritual experiences ❤️

I’ve seen people on Twitter getting mad that the pope said ai doesn’t have a soul lol. Lots of people seem to forget what a pope is!

AI is only inevitable for those who lack creative and critical thinking skills.

We should reward innovation which EMBEDS protection of planet and people by DESIGN instead of expecting people to 'just get on with it'. These technologies are a political CHOICE not a necessity.

The title indicated there would be an explanation as to why what the pope has to say on AI matters. Why does it matter? Will it matter? What eight does he have on the subject? I would like to have seen more of an explanation around what this as it was promoted in the title

Please do not reduce a complex moral discussion to a simple binary. The question is not “Is AI positive or negative?” but “How does humanity thrive, and how can technology be ordered toward that end?"

What??

The Vatican is positioning itself at the forefront of global AI governance debates, arguing that technology must remain “human-centric, available to everyone, and open to dialogue” This challenges the current trajectory where profit and geopolitical competition drive AI development without adequate ethical guardrails.