A partnership between the Vatican and Microsoft is bringing to life a new digital portal that aims to bring St. Peter’s Basilica closer to global audiences and improve the experience of pilgrims and visitors. By Fabio Colagrande and Linda Bordoni The Vatican’s Fabbrica di San Pietro receives a challenge from Pope Francis: use modern technology…
Vatican news In a published address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis underlines the need to consider the human and ethical dimensions of scientific and technological progress. By Christopher Wells As the Pontifical Academy of Sciences prepares to discuss humanity’s “profound impacts” on creation and advances in artificial intelligence, Pope Francis urged its…
Vatican news In a recently published document, drafted by its youth advisory body, Youth Net, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) highlights the need for EU policy makers to prioritise family values and Christian ethics to reduce the negative effects of the digital revolution on younger generations. By Lisa Zengarini…
Vatican news Pope Francis reaffirms that artificial intelligence should only be used for the benefit of humanity, thanking participants in the international convention on “Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Technocratic Paradigm,” organized by the Centesimus Annus Pro Foundation Vatican Pontifice. Deborah Castellano Lubov Just over a week after Pope Francis' speech at the G7 session…
Cisco, the multinational digital communications technology company, signs the Pontifical Academy for Life’s “Rome Call for AI Ethics,” committing to an ethical approach to intelligence artificial in the areas of ethics, education and rights. By Linda Bordoni Expressing satisfaction that the multinational digital communications technology company – Cisco – has joined other major companies involved…
Addressing the UN Disarmament Commission in New York, the Vatican's Permanent Observer to the UN reaffirms that the logic of deterrence is illusory and calls for the adoption of a binding international treaty to regulate disarmament. artificial intelligence modeled on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. By Lisa Zengarini Against a backdrop of…