‘Issue of our age’: In Vatican City, an apostle offers a plan to test AI's moral compass
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Leaders expressed grave concerns about what he had called a winner-take-all race to be the first to create artificial general intelligence. They worried about the relatively small group of people designing AI and raised warnings related to military uses, hacking, child sexual abuse and more.
Elder Gong shared some of those concerns.
“We deplore addictions and evils that AI is being used to enhance,” he said, “including AI ‘adult companions,’ AI-generated pornography and AI-driven gambling.”
“We recognize AI can supercharge digital dopamine,” he said. “This includes social media algorithms optimized to increase each person’s use; draw in more users; maximize advertising; and monetize rage. And, for good and ill, we know AI-enhanced virtual reality, robotics and other leading-edge technologies are coming.”
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