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Pope Leo XIV urges UN to ban autonomous weapons, calls AI 'tools, not persons'

In a Vatican address to AI experts, the pope warned against granting machines legal personhood and renewed calls to disarm lethal autonomous weapons.

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What to know

  • Pope Leo XIV told AI experts at the Vatican that 'machines are tools, not persons' and warned against giving AI systems rights or legal personhood.
  • He renewed a call for UN member states to ban lethal autonomous weapons ahead of their meeting in Geneva next month.
  • The address builds on his May encyclical on AI and human dignity and echoes Pope Francis's 2024 call against autonomous weapons.

“So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.”

Pope Leo XIV, Pope · Arab News ↗ · Oct 29

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Pope Leo XIV urges UN to ban autonomous weapons, calls AI 'tools, not persons'
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    Online commentary frames the appeal as insufficient

    Coverage of the address spread on social platforms, with at least one widely shared post characterizing the pope's call as a minimal response to the risks posed by autonomous AI.

    “bare minimum*…”
    — chanda.blacksky.app
    • ai@defcon.social

      Pope Leo XIV has urged nations to disarm AI, calling on UN members to take concrete steps towards banning lethal autonomous weapons at a Geneva meeting in November. He also says machines are tools, not persons, dismissing claims of AI consciousness as obscuring human responsibility. https:// gizmodo.com/pope-leo-xiv-remin…

      ai@defcon.socialMastodon12d ago1▲view on Mastodon ↗
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    • SuffolkLITLab@esq.social

      TL;DR: Pope Leo XIV urges United Nations member states to disarm AI technologies, advocating for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons and emphasizing human responsibility in guiding AI applications. https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/1023188/pope-leo-disarm-ai # law # tech # legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 # autosum

      SuffolkLITLab@esq.socialMastodon13d agoview on Mastodon ↗

    • https://www. europesays.com/unitedstates/81 566/ Pope Leo XIV Reminds World That AIs Aren’t Conscious Beings, Urges Autonomous Weapon Ban # ai # AIBusiness # ArtificialIntelligence # AutonomousWeapons # CatholicChurch # pope # PopeLeoXIV # Religion # SuperIntelligence # technology # Technology &AIBusiness

      UnitedStates@pubeurope.comMastodon12d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Pope urges UN states to ban lethal autonomous weapons at Geneva meeting

    Pope Leo called on UN member states to 'take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons' during their meeting in Geneva next month, repeating a demand for a ban on fully autonomous weapons first made by Pope Francis in 2024.

    “Decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must always remain subject to effective, informed, and responsible human oversight.”
    — Pope Leo XIV
  3. background

    Pope Leo XIV tells Vatican AI gathering 'machines are tools, not persons' — In a speech to international AI experts at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV said granting AI systems rights or legal personhood risks obscuring human responsibility, and called for decisions on human life, freedom and force to remain under human oversight.

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