Paul Tighe

archbishop

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I remember being at a session where they were showing the potential benefits of AI in terms of diagnostics, in terms of individualised treatment plans,
The church can say, ‘Look, this is what humanity should be aspiring to’. We can’t on our own bring that about,
I met Fr Brendan McGuire, who was a parish priest in that area, an Irish priest who had worked in technology,
We had some very senior people, and it became very clear that this was genuinely taking off, and they were surprised at the rate of development,
Pope Francis, I remember he called me in for a meeting about 2018,
They wanted to alert us to something that was coming,

Earlier

The Irish priest informing the Catholic Church’s stance on AI

The Timesthetimes.com/world/ireland…

The Vatican’s response to artificial intelligence (AI) began a decade ago in the private library of a religious order in central Rome, where a group of top Silicon Valley executives gathered with senior Catholic officials below shelves lined with antique books spanning centuries of Christian thought

Irish Timesirishtimes.com/world/europe…