Fears about artificial intelligence (AI) and its possible threats to humanity are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, Pope Leo XIV insisted Monday, adding safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.
\n\nAP reports Leo, who dedicated his first encyclical to AI and protecting humanity in its wake, was asked during a press conference aboard his flight to the Vatican about what the United States and China especially should be doing to prevent AI from posing as yet undefined risks to humanity.
\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump – who has long been a champion of artificial intelligence – has already called for calm and said concerns about AI going rogue are a “hoax,” further adding efforts to limit the technology are part of a “SICK conspiracy.”
\n\nTrump has similarly pushed back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk to have greater government intervention with critical oversight of AI.
\n\n“This is a problem that, I think, we need to sit down and talk about,” the American-born Pontiff told reporters returning home from France. “We can’t just sit back and pretend nothing is going to happen.”
\n\nTrump remains…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
