{"id":110241,"date":"2020-11-11T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pope-francis-wants-you-to-pray-for-ethical-robots\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:44:00","slug":"pope-francis-wants-you-to-pray-for-ethical-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pope-francis-wants-you-to-pray-for-ethical-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pope Francis Wants You to Pray for Ethical Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pope Francis Wants You to Pray for Ethical Robots
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There\u2019s a lot of folks worried about the ethics and future of AI and robotics. App<\/a>arently, you can count Pope Francis among them. <\/p>\n

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Each month, the pope issues a new prayer intention<\/a><\/span>. The topics vary from month to month\u2014September, for instance, was about sustainability, February was for migrants, and, uh, March was for Catholics in China. This month, the pope is calling on all good Catholics to \u201c…pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, it doesn\u2019t appear that the pope has been binging the Terminator <\/em>series<\/a> and is urging followers to pray for salvation from a robot apocalypse. In a YouTube video<\/a><\/span> uploaded by Vatican News<\/a>, Pope Francis says, \u201cArtificial intelligence is at the heart of the epochal change we are experiencing. Robotics can make a better world possible if it is joined to the common good.\u201d At this point, the video seems to cut to footage of a prototype of Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot robot<\/span>, aka nightmare dog from hell. There\u2019s also interstitials of augmented reality used by construction and farm workers, exoskeletons dedicated to helping people walk, and an incredibly dead-eyed robot waving at a human. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIndeed, if technological progress increases inequalities, it is not true progress,\u201d the pope continues. \u201cFuture advances should be oriented towards respecting the dignity of the person and of Creation. Let us pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind. We could say, may it \u2018be human.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n