Pope’s plea for compassion puts humanity first as AI reshapes the world

In my last opinion column as religion editor of The Age I played a joke on the opinion editor, a good friend, by writing my article in Latin. I used Google Translate – a form of artificial intelligence. A decade later, I fear the joke is on me alone.

This is the only time I’ve used AI in writing, but its meteoric rise could be society-shaping, if not very soon. It cannot be left to the dominant voices.

Who today believes that Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk or the Chinese or American governments have even the slightest interest in the common good compared to the power, control, efficiency, wealth and military might they can extract from AI?

Pope Leo’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas For Leo, the most important stakeholders are…