Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Pope Leo XIV deserves great credit for making artificial intelligence (AI) the topic of his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity). The world is dangerously unprepared for the social and economic transformation that AI is bringing. Leo’s call for more thought and action about AI deserves to be heard by policymakers and publics, religious or secular, everywhere.
Leo rightly notes that AI represents a transformation comparable in scale to the Industrial Revolution — and that, as with industrialization, whether the technology turns out to be beneficial or harmful will depend on how it is used. He is also right that the “invisible hand” of the market cannot be relied upon to direct AI toward the common good, and that regulation is urgently needed.
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