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Vatican Meeting Explores Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
Vatican News ^ | 10/20/21

Posted on 10/22/2021 6:38:55 PM PDT by marshmallow

The Pontifical Council for Culture and the German Embassy to the Holy See host a one-day symposium starting on Thursday looking at "The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence for Human Society and the Idea of the Human Person".

The symposium on Artificial Intelligence – or AI – organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, in cooperation with the German Embassy to the Holy See, will open in Rome on Thursday.

The theme for the gathering is, “The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence for Human Society and the Idea of the Human Person". The aim of the meeting is to promote a better awareness of the profound cultural impact AI is likely to have on human society. The symposium will feature six experts from the fields of neuroscience, philosophy, Catholic theology, human rights law, ethics and electrical engineering.

Experts from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Goethe University, Boston College, and Google will discuss questions regarding AI and whether it can reproduce consciousness, AI and philosophical challenges, and AI and religion, and what it would mean in relation to Catholic doctrine.

The afternoon panel will focus on ethical and legal consequences arising from AI addressed by experts from the EU Agency for Human Rights, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technology Centre, and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Bishop Paul Tighe, the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, spoke to Vatican Radio's Thaddeus Jones about the symposium.

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1 posted on 10/22/2021 6:38:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I expect the pope to handle this as well as he has handled every other crisis affecting the Catholic church.


2 posted on 10/22/2021 7:00:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: marshmallow

They ought to focus on the challenge of an artificial pope.


3 posted on 10/22/2021 7:06:22 PM PDT by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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