The Franciscan monk helping the Vatican take on — and tame — AI
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Father Paolo Benanti has become one of the Pope’s chief advisers on the potential harms of new tech
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The Vatican's top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
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Religion against the machine: Pope Francis takes on AI
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Religion against the machine: Pope Francis takes on AI
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The Franciscan monk helping the Vatican take on — and tame — AI
The Vatican's top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
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Pope Francis' AI ethics expert is a Franciscan friar
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😤 Progress is hard. And a new study suggests it might be even harder than we think.
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Religion against the machine: Pope Francis takes on AI