Pope Leo XIV rejects granting legal identity and rights to artificial intelligence systems
Pope Leo XIV spoke out against granting legal identity or rights to artificial intelligence agents and argued that those responsible for their actions are their human creators. "Machines are tools, not persons," he said in a speech to industry experts gathered at the Vatican to discuss this technology and the responsibility of the scientific community and public institutions. He warned that recognizing rights for these systems could obscure human responsibility.
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- The pontiff said that "machines are tools, not persons" and that responsibility lies with their human creators.
- He warned that granting rights or legal identity to AI could obscure human responsibility and leave those affected facing "a faceless entity."
- He argued that AI does not undergo experiences, has no body, does not feel and does not know from within what love, work or responsibility mean.
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