He is the first Pope to ever address the forum, which brings together the leaders of the US, UK, Italy, France, Canada, Germany, and Japan.The Pope dedicated his address to the G7 to the subject of artificial intelligence.
He explained that he was referring to the fact that humans’ relationship with the environment has always been mediated by the tools that they have produced. It is thus very important, the Pope stressed, that important decisions must “always be left to the human person.” However, the Pope stressed, this is reductive: “human beings are always developing, and are capable of surprising us by their actions. This is something that a machine cannot take into account.”
A particular concern in this regard, he said, is that today it is “increasingly difficult to find agreement on the major issues concerning social life” - there is less and less consensus, that is, regarding the philosophy that should be shaping artificial intelligence.