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South Australia to hold royal commission into AI
South Australia will hold a royal commission into artificial intelligence and the policy around it, with the state government warning of the technology’s potentially destructive impacts as well as acknowledging its upsides. Source: ABC News.
People are not data to be optimised: technology ethicist
The growing influence of artificial intelligence is prompting society to ask profound questions about what it means to be human, according to technology ethicist Victoria Lorrimar. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Technology must serve truth and the common good: Pope
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged communicators to ensure that every technological tool is placed “at the service of truth and the common good”, as the Church reflects on the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence. Source: Vatican News.
AI developments require ‘new spiritual, ethical and political framework’
Humanity is at a crossroads, facing both an ecological crisis on a warming planet and the anthropological predicament of humanity’s future in relation to artificial intelligence, writes Sr Adele Howard RSM. Source: Mercy Eco Communications.
University rises to the challenge of AI
As artificial intelligence transforms society, the most pressing challenge is ensuring that technology is guided by ethics, human dignity and the common good, according to experts at the launch of Australian Catholic University’s Human and Digital Futures initiative.
Pope becomes first faith leader to have his writings declared ‘AI free’
Pope Leo XIV’s writings on artificial intelligence have become the first work of a faith leader to be officially verified as man-made, via an Australian outfit working with authors and artists to certify their work as bot-free. Source: Daily Telegraph.
Labor to tighten rules around government use of AI
Australia will tighten oversight of artificial intelligence in automated government decision-making and strengthen privacy safeguards as part of a broader push to allay concerns about the technology’s risks to community safety. Source: ABC News.
Experts sign Rome declaration on limits for AI and nuclear arms
Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, more than 200 leading academics, innovators and Nobel laureates signed a declaration in Rome calling for responsible artificial intelligence development and the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Source: EWTN News.
Castel Gandolfo assembly told AI increasing risk of nuclear disaster
Speaking at the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly in Castel Gandolfo, former federal Labor MP Melissa Parke warned that artificial intelligence is increasing the risks posed by nuclear weapons and called for a renewed commitment to dialogue and disarmament. Source: Vatican News.