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The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order

AP News

BY FRANCES D’EMILIO
Updated 10:16 AM EST, January 18, 2024

ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives.

Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on the technology and he has the ear of Pope Francis as well as some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers and executives.

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