artificial intelligence

Technology holds the potential to benefit all of humankind, but it also poses risky and unforeseen results, Pope Francis said.

Even though today’s modern tools and technologies are hardly human, the Pontifical Academy for Life is zeroing in on the world of robots and machines powered by artificial intelligence.

Science, technology, religion and the humanities need to work together for their mutual benefit and to safeguard humanity, Pope Francis said.

“Connected World,” by Father Philip Larrey, a philosophy professor at Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, studies the impact and long-term consequences of increasingly advanced technology and the rise of artificial intelligence on society.