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- Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith met with Pope Francis on Wednesday to talk ethics around artificial intelligence, according to a statement put out by the Vatican.
- Smith told Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that "strong ethical and new, evolved laws" are needed as the world’s technology evolves.
Microsoft President Brad Smith met Pope Francis on Wednesday to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, the Vatican said.
The head of the global tech giant and the 81-year-old Roman Catholic leader, who once said he is a “disaster” when it comes to technology, spoke for about 30 minutes in the pontiff’s residence.
The pair discussed “artificial intelligence at the service of the common good and activities aimed at bridging the digital divide that still persists at the global level," according to a statement.
Smith, 60, told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in an interview that “strong ethical and new, evolved laws” were needed so that technological advances such as artificial intelligence do not fall into the wrong hands.
The Vatican said its Academy for Life would jointly sponsor a prize with Microsoft for the best doctoral dissertation in 2019 on the theme of “artificial intelligence at the service of human life."
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Source: Business Insider