Fr. Michael Baggot, an artificial intelligence expert, highlights that artificial intelligence (AI) is the result of human creativity and should always serve the person, respecting his dignity.
This was also indicated by the bioethics professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, in an interview with Ewtn News, after the Vatican published a new document on artificial intelligence entitled Old and new (The old and the new), which addresses the ethical and anthropological implications of these new tools.
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The priest indicated that the text “explains how these new technologies are tools of human creativity, that is, they are at the service of the person and also gives a good summary of all the implications of these technologies in society: in the world of the world of Medicine, in education, in social relations, in the family and also in political relations ”.
When asked about AI challenges in schools and universities, the expert warned that “in the world of education there are many risks” such as “that artificial intelligence is an obstacle to the personal growth of students. The document says that education should never be only the transmission of information but an academic relationship and community. ”
In that sense, said Fr. Baggot, “artificial intelligence can favor studies, can give opportunities for students, for example, a type of personal tutor” or develop some type of personal test, “but we always have to protect this Relationship between the teacher, the person and the students because this is a path of growth and not only of information transmission ”.
AI and respect for human dignity
On this aspect, the priest warned that “sometimes artificial intelligence is used to create false information, to make a type of deepfakethat is, false representations of people, especially of famous people. ”
“Then, the Church speaks clearly about the need to respect the truth in the use of artificial intelligence and also to help people always distinguish between reality and artificial intelligence, which is a technology at the service of the person,” He added.
The presbyter also said that “it is very important that people have the possibility of using artificial intelligence with respect to their privacy, that is, their decisions, its use, always reflects their preferences and many details of their personal life.”
In that sense, he said that “there is always the danger of a government that takes too much of this information to manipulate people and promote some ideologies, then the Pope and the Church always want to underline this dignity of the person and the right to use intelligence artificial without surveillance ”.
DeepSeek and IA
On Depseek, an artificial intelligence tool that competes with Chatgpt with a lower cost, the AI expert stressed that with its development “it is clear that artificial intelligence will affect more sectors of the economy and life and society every day and society It also gives more people the possibility to enter this world. ”
That means that, in the end, “they will not be only large companies with access to this technology, but more and more small groups and people” who have this possibility.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.