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Pope condemns use of AI to fuel ‘polarization, conflict, fear and violence’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePope Leo XIV warns against the use of AI to fan “polarization, conflict, fear and violence” and criticizes the “environmental devastation” caused by the extraction of rare earths to fuel the digital boom.
“The challenge posed by these systems is greater than it appears: it is not just about the use of new technologies, but about the gradual replacement of reality by its simulation,” he says in a speech at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaounde, Cameroon.
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