Artificial intelligence is reshaping relationships by providing conversation and companionship, and reshaping how people work. For children, it is making toys interactive and data-driven, and it is mechanizing and perhaps dehumanizing healthcare. The speed and magnitude of these transformations is breathtaking.
Effective leadership of the development, deployment and monitoring of AI requires addressing risks to people and the environment. It also calls for ensuring equity – fair access to AI’s benefits and fair mitigation of potential harm. Pope Leo XIV set this tone in his recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, about the human promises and perils of AI.
