Pope Leo XIV
Magnifica Humanitas §103
R Esponsibility, Transparency and the Governance of Ai
Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
103 Indeed, entrusting an algorithm in practice with the power to select who is worthy or not, without anyone bearing responsibility for that judgment, is to hand over the task of redefining the boundaries of human possibilities. In this process, political responsibility is also lost, not just empathy toward those excluded, which can, after all, be simulated. The exclusion of the vulnerable becomes cloaked in a veneer of neutrality and objectivity, against which it becomes difficult to raise objections. In this way, injustice goes unnoticed, and compassion, mercy and forgiveness — understood not as mere appearances but as real political actions — gradually disappear from view.
Source: Magnifica Humanitas (Vatican.va)