What does this have to do with Catholicism?
Ethical concerns around potential job loss, facial recognition, and bias have been raised surrounding the future impact of artificial intelligence on society. On Friday those concerns were elevated to a “higher authority,” with IBM and Microsoft lending support to a set of ethical principles backed by the Vatican.
Such principles were outlined in a document titled “Rome Call For AI Ethics,” and promotes a regulatory approach around what is being called an “algor-ethical” vision of design, with transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, security and privacy all factored in.
“AI systems must be conceived, designed and implemented to serve and protect human beings and the environment in which they live,” the document reads. “It must include every human being, discriminating against no one; it must have the good of humankind and the good of every human being at its heart; finally, it must be mindful of the complex reality of our ecosystem and be characterized by the way in which it cares for and protects the planet….”
Go here to read the rest. Catholicism is being weakened by popes lending the prestige of their office to dubious causes that have bupkis to do with Catholicism. This is going on at a time when too many Catholics are either bone ignorant of the Faith or hostile to aspects of it. PopeWatch has noted that when people are lousy at their job is usually the time when they attempt to do everything except what they are being paid to do.
The mission of the Catholic Church is that of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor, a Man centered religion based on a Communist New World Order.
https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/11.%20Dostoevsky.pdf
The ethics of Artificial Intelligence have already been resolved in Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. The Vatican needs to get back to what it’s real job is – the salvation of human souls from eternal damnation in the everlasting fires of hell.
A basic “sins that you use an AI for are still sins” would cover it, without the buzzword bingo that’s so open to abuse.
Current papacy is too concerned with Legacy.
Foxfier and LQC have summed up AI ethic succinctly.
What better what to demonstrate your irrelevance to the world than by clinging to every passing worldly fad, just to prove your still relevant?
True Ernst. The Vatican used to think in centuries. Now they are gasping to keep up with the latest tweets.
We seem to be having serious problems with raising flesh and blood children. What would lead anyone to think that we will do any better job, as it were, in raising AI?
GregB-
that kind of AI doesn’t exist; may not be possible to exist– it’s an artificial person/intellect/moral being*.
The AI that’s being discussed is the mechanical decision making one.
Which is a glorified coin-sorter; it takes the inputs and organizes them by the built in metrics. You can just pile a whole bunch of them into a very small card, thanks to the power of ones and zeroes. (like coffee, it helps you make bad choices FASTER!)
And behold another beast like a bear stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh. Dan.7.4
The second Beast is Bear.
BEAR = SOCIAL MEDIA/AI (Microsoft + Facebook + Apple + Youtube + Twitter + Instagram Wikileaks + Google + Amazon’s Alexa + Snapchat + WhatsApp etc…)
Arise, devour much flesh…
Scifi has interesting perspectives on Computers and the Church. See
https://www.catholicstand.com/theology-science-fiction-iii-data-soul/
and Robert Silverberg’s “Good News from the Vatican” at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_from_the_Vatican
and please forgive the shameless self-promotion.
Bah, that self-promotion is good stuff. ^.^