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.
She's got a point, especially when it comes to the might of multinational corporations. Benanti, ever the stats man, pointed out:"In Bologna we have the fourth-most powerful public supercomputer in the world. It has 40,000 GPUs, the building bricks for AI.Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI
Meloni heaped praise on the 87-year-old Pope for sparking the debate with his call for an AI ethics conference at the Vatican back in February 2020, drawing in heavyweights like Microsoft, IBM, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Benanti said:"From migrants to ecology to AI, he is sensitive to the needs of the most fragile people, the social effects. He sees how all the training of AI is done by underpaid English speakers around the world. In the same way he sees how the use of genetically modified crops actually leaves farmers poorer and more dependent on technology."