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Thought for the Week: AI — Keeping humanity in charge
The direct nature of Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical took some of his colleagues by surprise: as an AI expert Franciscan friar who has advised the Vatican says, ‘Papal documents usually speak in principles; this one names the structural problem — computational power is concentrated in the hands of a few private actors who answer to no democratic process’. The jury is still out on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on human employment, but the cartoon from Private Eye on our commentary webpage resonates closely with Standard Chartered's announcement that it will use AI to replace 'lower-value…
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