Prefect of Vatican Communications: This is our time to shape the world

Prefect of Vatican Communications: This is our time to shape the world

Inaugurating the first national Catholic media conference in India organized by the Salesians, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication reflects on our responsibility to share and communicate the truth and to shape our times in the best possible way. By Linda Bordoni As a revolution is underway in the world of communications, the Prefect…

AI offers pilgrims and visitors enhanced experience of St. Peter’s Basilica

AI offers pilgrims and visitors enhanced experience of St. Peter’s Basilica

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…

Pope highlights human dignity in address to Academy of Sciences

Pope highlights human dignity in address to Academy of Sciences

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…

COMECE calls on EU to prioritise family values in digital age

COMECE calls on EU to prioritise family values in digital age

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…

Pope on AI: Welcome its benefits to humanity, but mitigate its risks

Pope on AI: Welcome its benefits to humanity, but mitigate its risks

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 signs the “Rome Call for AI Ethics”

Cisco signs the “Rome Call for AI Ethics”

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…

Holy See: ‘Nuclear deterrence is an illusion’

Holy See: ‘Nuclear deterrence is an illusion’

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…