The Catholic Bishops Convention of Nigeria on Tuesday warned that Synthetic Intelligence (AI), pretty much as good as it could be, ought to be a software for empowerment and progress and never for division and destruction.
Whereas warning on the hazards of AI, the group requested for warning and accountable use of the know-how and
emphasised the necessity for moral issues in AI growth and deployment.
The President of CBCN, Most Rev. Lucius Ugorji, raised the considerations throughout the maiden version of the Communication Week Public Lecture in Abuja with the theme, “Synthetic Intelligence and Knowledge of the Coronary heart: For A Totally Human Communication”, attended by the clergy, consecrated women and men, lay trustworthy, AI and social growth consultants.
The cleric emphasised the necessity for moral issues in AI growth and deployment.
Ugorji mentioned, “AI has permeated numerous aspects of life. Immediately, computer systems can carry out duties historically requiring human intelligence, resembling understanding pure language, recognizing patterns, studying from information, and making selections.
“Regardless of the large advantages, the event and deployment of AI digital know-how have to be approached with moral rigour. AI ought to be a software for empowerment and progress, and never for division and destruction.”
He harassed the Church’s dedication to addressing the moral considerations surrounding AI.
“We want to create consciousness of the revolutionary constructive affect on humanity and society by AI, whereas elevating the moral considerations that come up from its abuse”, Ugorji mentioned.
Archbishop Ugorji acknowledged that guided by Vatican II Decree on the Technique of Social Communication, Inter Mirifica no. 2, the Church acknowledges its accountability to coach the trustworthy on the constructive and damaging influences of the media.
Consequently, the CBCN President emphasised the necessity for steadiness
He mentioned, “We should try for a steadiness that prioritizes human welfare alongside technological progress, conscious of the moral and ethical dilemmas, in addition to dangers resembling job displacement, risk to peace on the earth, unfold of falsehood by means of propaganda, manipulation of the human particular person, and privateness considerations by means of superior hacking and deepfakes.”
Onaiyekan commends Pope Francis
Earlier, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, recommended Pope Francis for his brave stance on Synthetic Intelligence (AI).
He mentioned that the Pope’s warnings on the hazards of AI, which has been constant, resonates past Church circles, reaching the best ranges of the worldwide group.
The Cleric mentioned the Prime Minister of Italy, Mrs. Giorgia Meloni, had invited the Pope to take part within the upcoming G7 summit, a primary for a pope.
He emphasised the significance of the Pope’s warning whereas highlighting the Church’s place on scientific progress.
Onaiyekan acknowledged, “It’s not all the things that we are able to try this we must always do. Even scientific progress have to be topic to human, ethical, and moral management. It is a accountability that humanity abdicates at its nice peril.
“All scientific progress is a present of God to humanity, for use for human well-being to the glory of God. The identical is true for AI, which is the newest in a quickly altering human management of energy and machines from mechanical to electrical and digital and now laptop and digital instruments.”
The Cardinal additionally acknowledged the uncertainty surrounding AI’s future, saying: “We don’t know the way far developments on this regard will go. However the warning of Pope Francis stays legitimate.”
AI not actually clever, lacks consciousness and free will – Prof. Akinwale
The visitor speaker and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Augustine College, Ilara-Epe, Lagos State, Rev. Fr. Prof Anthony Akinwale, argued that Synthetic Intelligence (AI) lacks consciousness and free will, and due to this fact, can’t be thought-about actually clever.
He expressed considerations concerning the moral implications of Synthetic Intelligence (AI).
Akinwale argued that AI techniques lack consciousness and free will, and due to this fact can’t be thought-about actually clever.
He emphasised that intelligence requires self-consciousness and self-volition, which AI techniques don’t possess.
“The operations of an clever agent will not be solely intending object, but in addition acutely aware operations of the agent.
Self-consciousness of an clever agent means when an clever agent operates, not solely is the thing on which the clever agent operates current to the agent, but in addition the clever agent is current to himself”, he mentioned.
Akinwale additionally highlighted the significance of moral issues within the growth and deployment of AI.
He warned that AI techniques can be utilized to unfold misinformation and propaganda, and emphasised the necessity for accountable decision-making within the growth of AI.
Akinwale mentioned, “Communication is not only dissemination of knowledge, however an act of affection by which coronary heart speaks to coronary heart.
“Decreased to mere dissemination of knowledge, it precipitously degenerates into harmful misinformation, into a robust propaganda equipment of damaging social engineering.”
Different Bishops, panelists, and important stakeholders who spoke emphasised the necessity for a smart strategy to information the event and deployment of AI, highlighting the significance of the Church’s mission of evangelization within the context of growth.
Friday Olokor, Abuja
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