Pope Leo XIV warns against entrusting human-life decisions to machines

Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that decisions affecting human life are increasingly being entrusted to machines as he called for ethical safeguards governing artificial intelligence and other digital technologies.“One of the serious problems today is the fact that decisions concerning human life are being entrusted to machines,” Pope Leo XIV said Aug. 28 during an audience with members of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.“The speed at which innovations in AI, in artificial intelligence, are developing prompts us to ask…