The Episcopal Commission for Social Communications of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) considers that the risk in the use of artificial intelligence lies in that “it stops being a means and becomes a subject with its own initiative, with the capacity to interpret the reality or current events according to unknown biases, with the drive to offer solutions or conclusions foreign to the heart of man.”
In its message on the occasion of World Communications Day which is celebrated this Sunday coinciding with the solemnity of the Ascension, the prelates consider that it is time to ensure that the tools linked to artificial intelligence “are at the service of communication professionals, but do not replace them, because the “Technologies don’t have hearts, but people do.”
This proposal, they affirm, “requires an effort” because, like culturalizing another medium, artificial intelligence by itself “does not have an unequivocal orientation towards good.” Thus, “subject to human will,” it can serve for social benefit or “encourage discarding, confrontation, hatred or disengagement.”