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Pope calls on G7 leaders to ban use of autonomous weapons | Pontiff says machines should never be able to decide whether human beings live or die
Pontiff says machines should never be able to decide whether human beings live or die
Pope Francis has made a historic address to G7 leaders urging them to recognise they have the power to decide if artificial intelligence becomes a terrifying or creative tool, and calling on them to ban the use of autonomous weapons in war. Drawing on Robert Hugh Benson’s early 20th-century book about the anti-christ, Lord of the World, the pope said the danger of AI lay in the ability it contained for machines to make decisions independent of human beings. “We would condemn humanity to a future without hope if we took away people’s ability to make decisions about themselves and their lives, by dooming them to depend on the choices of machines,” he said, adding it was true of every tool since the dawn of time that they could be used negatively or positively.
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