Pope Francis Publishes Artificial Intelligence Guidelines
The Holy See has published guidelines about the growing tech space - which is viewed by many as a threat to society - devised by Pope Francis and the Markkula Centre at Santa Clara University via their new organization, the Institute for Technology, Ethics and Culture.
Father Brendan McGuire, a pastor at St Simon Parish in Los Altos and advisor to ITEC, told Gizmodo: "Technology executives from all over Silicon Valley have been coming to me for years and saying, ‘You need to help us, there’s a lot of stuff on the horizon and we aren’t ready.’ The idea was to use the Vatican’s convening power to bring executives from the entire world together.”
Fr. Brendan McGuire, ITEC steering committee member, quoted by Longview News-Journal about the launch of the Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture (ITEC) and the "ITEC Handbook."