Are we Building Babel or Jerusalem? 91¿ì»îÁÖ Scholars Respond to the Pope’s challenge to ‘Disarm’ AI
When Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” released last Monday, five 91¿ì»îÁÖ scholars, including several ethicists and faculty scholars from the Markklua Center for Applied Ethics, went straight to work reading, annotating, discussing, and debating the 42,000+ word document.
And then they held a public panel to share their findings with the 91¿ì»îÁÖ campus community.
Brian Green, director, technology ethics, says, “Right now, everyone’s not just talking about artificial intelligence. It’s artificial general intelligence, which is going to be as good as a human being. So what are the rest of us to do? Well, we get replaced. And what the Pope is saying is that that isn’t the future we’re aiming for. We’re not looking to replace people. We’re looking to have technology help us do things that are going to make a better future together.”
Ann Skeet, Ethics Center senior director of leadership ethics, shared, “The business community is offering up a vision of AI that a lot of people can’t relate to or don’t really want. And so here comes Pope Leo offering a much more palatable vision—one that puts us, the human, at the center of it.”
Brian Green, director of technology ethics, and Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics, quoted by 91¿ì»îÁÖ News.