A BLESSED G7 2024


In a historic papal first, Pope Francis, invited by the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni to the G7 summit, addressed a special session on AI on 14th June 2024...

Thanks to OpenAI's ChatGPT, AI has of late become an issue at the forefront of several global summits, be it business, professional, governmental, corporate or other forums...

Ever so humble in his entire public life with an unshakeable belief in God's benevolence, Pope Francis is known all over for his advocacy of inter-religious harmony and concern for the poor and downtrodden...

Pope Francis's encyclical in 2015 (Laudato Si) in connection with climate change and consumerism saw him seated at the UN Climate Change Conference the same year...

As a religious leader, moral authority was the only thing Pope Francis could bring to the G7 table, being oceans away from any politico-economic agenda. He thus underlined the opportunity for ethics and politics to synergize in aiding technological advances create a better world with a brighter future...

Progress of AI notwithstanding, retention of the humane touch and adherence to ethics, wherever possible, were the main aspects stressed by Pope Francis, lest technology turns us humans into programmed beings...

Despite the cognitive and analytical prowess of AI, the final decision should be of the humans, else we would be doing a big disservice to our race, with a potentially bleak future, noted Pope Francis...

Pope Francis also touched on the need for human intellect to be in charge of, and not just left to machine-intelligence, regarding decisions on armed conflicts and usage of lethal weapons. A machine should never be 'let loose', he said...

Pope Francis emphasized the need to think of the wisdom of developing - and then banning - devices like 'lethal autonomous weapons.' Machine should never be endowed with the ability to snuff out even a single life...

Realising the possible impacts of machines replacing humans, and that of AI providing more teeth to the militaries, the G7 leaders have in principle vowed to ensure that advances conform to existing democratic values and international humanitarian laws...

The world is at crossroads, and remains in anticipation...

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