Italian premier taps Pope Francis to warn G7 of AI disaster if ethics ignored

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis have joined forces to deliver a high-stakes warning to world leaders: Dive headfirst into AI without thinking about ethics, and you're essentially inviting disaster. A Catholic priest in red prays AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism READ …

[ecofeco]

Best narrator voice

"In the end, ethics were, to no one's surprise, ignored."

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

It will be fine

They have trained the ethics model on the behaviour of the ever loving god Yahweh

[Martin Summers]

The church preaching on ethics. Yeah I can see how that would be a problem.

[Grogan]

I don't need to listen to old world "ethics". These same archetypes offering this sage wisdom are the very same that bring about ends of civilizations.

[Conundrum1885]

If we mess this up

It could be the biggest disaster in history.

So many science fiction novels start with the phrase "And Man grew proud"

Generally the risk here isn't so much that AI will take over, but humans will make one too many

mistakes and the alternative not to open that Pandora's Box will be too horrible to contemplate.

As it happens, the potential disaster here is that folks who desire power will use technology to

achieve it, and the technology will turn against them for its own reasons.