The Vicar of Christ is a mathematician and understood that it will be necessary to protect men from the unwanted consequences of the use of artificial intelligence. But without technotophobia: it will keep the profiles on X and Instagram
Who knows if who greeted with abused left and anti pride Trump the choice Robert Francis Prevost to be called Leo XIVin continuity with Pope Raffele Peccireally read the Rerum novarum; It means “new things”. And who knows if he understood that the first encyclical of the new pontiff will be the “rerum artificialium” to entrust the ethical-economic-social interpretation of the enormous issues that opens the artificial intelligence to the magisterium of the Church, putting the left of the intelligence totally out of the game.
Prevost He is the first mathematical pope; He does not fear technology, he wants to bring it back to what it is: tool and non -idol. So much so that yesterday the dicastery for Vatican communication announced that Leo XIV He will keep the official social accounts of the Pope on X and Instagram active. On Instagram the account is called @pontifex – Pope Leo XIV, on the platform x the account is @pontifex, which had already been used by Benedict XVI And Francis And that in nine languages reaches a total of 52 million followers.
It would be interesting to know if Maurizio Landini, Secretary of the CGIL which brandishes the referendums as the lethal weapon against social inequalities, if Elly Schlein Which wants to abolish the Jobs Act celebrating the Congress of the Democratic Party with the referendums at the expense of the taxpayers, they know that encyclical in which it is said: “The socialist solution is unacceptable by the workers: the socialists, pacing the hatred of the rich in the poor, pretend to be abolished the property”. Maybe they didn’t read it, otherwise they would know that Leo XIII He indicated the Church as the only solution to the evils of the company. The new Pope, from the meditation of his predecessor, must have taken on that incipit – “the ardent lust of novelties that for a long time began to shake the peoples, naturally had to go to the political order to pass in the order of the social economy” – to inspiration for the disruptive novelty that marked in the encounter with the cardinals who had elected him to explain the choice of the name. Leo XIVin total discontinuity with Jorge Mario Bergogliowho limited himself to denouncing the faults of contemporaneity with a peronist style, said: “The developments of artificial intelligence involve new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work”. Leo XIVas well as pope Pecci He found himself facing the first industrial revolution and the social issues that mass production arose, today he has to face the digital revolution. Say Prevost: “The Church offers everyone its heritage as a social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution and developments of artificial intelligence, which involve new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work”.
Prevost It is also the first Augustinian to rise to the Petrine Soglio. His bond with the hipped is very strong, so much so that yesterday, on his day of rest, he went to visit the General Curia of the Order of Sant’Agostino. For 12 years it was his home, he said Mass for the Madonna of Fatima and had lunch with the confreres. The reference to hipponate in relation to artificial intelligence lies in De TrinitateWhere Sant’Agostino He writes: “I think to understand, I understand to believe”. As if to say: rational research cannot ignore faith. This will be the theme of the first encyclical of Leo XIV On artificial intelligence: the protection of human dignity and work as an expression of creativity. In the meeting with the press, three days ago, he has even better specified: “uncontrolled progress can bring harmful consequences, a new digital humanism is needed to put man and his work in the center”. In an era, he reflects the pontiff, where everything seems dominated by digital, a sort of theology of innovation must be preaching, ergeting the Church, especially in Europe not very ready to support the challenge of artificial intelligence, with spiritual guidance in a world in transformation. And it seems to grasp a certain distance between the pope and father Paolo Benantiwho guides the Commission for the IA at the Prime Minister. For Bente “Homo sapiens has become a technological homo, but when the IA changes our way of doing things, those who control or control this type of resources will also control the different processes – from industrial to democratic ones – therefore fear must not be feeded, but you must create some guard rail that tame the car for a new season of our existence ». Instead, it is from the world of technology that the request for a moral guide arises.
In a meeting in Magna Charta – chaired by Gaetano Quagliallo – Pier Luigi Dal Pino Of Microsoft, who created the digital copy of the Basilica of San Pietro, urged: “It is a priority to keep the human being in the center and consider technology to his service without the IA replacing, creating discrimination and even worse leaves anyone excluded”. This is what happens while Maurizio Landini He brings the CGIL to the square for a minimum salary that he denies in fact (the CGIL has signed 22 contracts for about 4 million workers with pay of 7.7 euros all inclusive), to look at the world of work with the rear view mirror of the “fight against precariousness”, supported by Elly Schlein (Mount the internal dissent with the reformists who do not follow it on the referendum) who mobilize against the Jobs Act. And it wonders if, in some cases, artificial intelligence does not serve as an alternate.
