It must be added, moreover, that the good use, at least of advanced forms of artificial intelligence, will not be fully under the control of either the users or the programmers who defined their original purposes at the time they were designed. This is all the more true because it is highly likely that, in the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence programs will be able to communicate directly with each other to improve their performance.
Pope Francis
former head of the Catholic Church
In a 2024 address to the G7, Pope Francis said the good use of advanced AI would not be fully controlled by users or its original programmers and that AI programs would likely soon communicate directly with one another.
PopeJune 14, 2024G7 session on artificial intelligence, Borgo Egnazia
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This starts from an effective and concrete commitment to introduce ever greater and proper human control. No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being. It must be added, moreover, that the good use, at least of advanced forms of artificial intelligence, will not be fully under the control of either the users or the programmers who defined their original purposes at the time they were designed. This is all the more true because it is highly likely that, in the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence programs will be able to communicate directly with each other to improve their performance. And if, in the past, men and women who fashioned simple tools saw their lives shaped by them the knife enabled them to survive the cold but also to develop the art of warfare now that human beings have fashioned complex tools they
What this quote does not say
- The passage predicts incomplete control but does not state that AI will pursue hostile goals or cause catastrophe.
- Later in the address, Francis said people must make good use of AI and politics must create the conditions for that use; this does not retract his claim that good use of advanced AI will not be fully under user or programmer control.
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