di Riccardo Luna
The words of one of the fathers of AI in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
«To guarantee access to frontier models and mitigate the risks of major power concentrations, middle powers must collaborate to form a broad coalition with shared values and complementary resources. To make this possible, public opinion will be key, and major institutions, including the Church, have a significant role to play. I believe that the only way to avoid terrible outcomes including major threats to democracy and catastrophic accidents is if we end up managing the most powerful AIs as a global public good. My impression is that this view is very much aligned with the Pope’s message». In short: a great alliance of the so-called «middle powers» is needed to counterbalance the overwhelming technological power of the US and China. Speaking in this way, in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is Youshua Bengio, 62, the most cited scientist in the world and one of the «fathers» of artificial intelligence, the only one who has always viewed the unregulated growth of Big Tech with suspicion.
Professor Bengio, last September you came to
