Vatican Workshop on Ethics
and AI
Vatican workshop focuses on ethics and AI |
A Workshop organized by the Pontifical Academy for life on
the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence is taking place in the Vatican.
By Benedict Mayaki
A workshop titled ‘The “Good” Algorithm? Artificial
Intelligence: Ethics, Law, Health,’ organized by the Pontifical Academy for
life is taking place on 26 -28 February.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the President of the Pontifical
Academy for life, Fr. Paolo Benanti T.O.R, an expert in bioethics and
technology, and Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza, a professor of Industrial
bioengineering were the speakers at a press conference organized on 24 February
by the Holy See Press office to present the workshop.
In their interventions, the three speakers touched on themes
bordering on human and Artificial Intelligence (AI), healthcare, medicine and
ethics.
Archbishop Paglia spoke on Pope Francis’ call to the
Pontifical Academy for Life to broaden its horizons and revisit the very
meaning of the term “human life” and how it is marked by emerging and
converging new technologies.
He went on to emphasize the importance of creating an
ethical movement that involves other actors like public institutions, NGOs and
industries who are involved in reflecting on how technologies affect the care and
protection of human life.
Fr. Benanti examined the different industrial revolutions
and how the advent of the powerful computers of recent times have given rise to
Artificial Intelligence which alter human cognition. He highlighted the
consequent problem of human surrogacy by machines which have diagnostic
capacities, and stressed on the need to infuse ethics into technology.
In her speech, Prof. Carrozza spoke on the importance of the
application of AI to the field of medicine. She however placed emphasis on the
necessity of education to ethics which will define the relationship between
patients, medical professionals and technology.
The workshop is held at the Aula Nuova del Sinodo in
Vaticano.
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