{"id":80561,"date":"2026-06-17T02:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=80561"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:00:54","slug":"artificial-intelligence-raises-profound-moral-questions-for-all-of-humanity-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/artificial-intelligence-raises-profound-moral-questions-for-all-of-humanity-to-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions \u2014 for all of humanity to answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighbourhood would a weapon system target? These are moral choices \u2014 about harm and fairness \u2014 and they used to be made by people.<\/p>\n

Now moral choices like these are made by artificial intelligence (AI) and by the companies developing it. Not government, not the public, but corporations.<\/p>\n

Chris Olah, co-founder of the AI company Anthropic and a self-described atheist, recently sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and\u00a0said his own industry cannot be trusted to govern itself<\/a>. \u201cSome might believe that matters of AI are best handled by computer scientists like myself,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are mistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olah was echoing the Pope\u2019s first encyclical,\u00a0Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/a>, which warns that AI must serve humanity rather than concentrate power.
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