CFR 7/30 Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Pope Leo XIV and Human Dignity in the Age of AI
Erin Dumbacher: The Rome Declaration and AI Guardrails
The Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on AI and Nuclear War, culminating in the Rome Declaration, calls for prohibiting the reckless integration of AI into nuclear command and control. Participants debated risk reduction versus disarmament, but converged on the need for guardrails, accountability, and regulation, including robust cybersecurity and failsafe reviews for digitized systems. The declaration emphasizes maintaining meaningful human control over nuclear weapons, balancing readiness with authorization.
Michael Baggot: AI's Impact on Human Dignity and Virtue Ethics
The papal encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' challenges a purely cost-benefit approach to AI, advocating for virtue ethics and human rights. It questions whether business models that prioritize profit over human needs and dignity can truly serve societal well-being, suggesting a fundamental tension between commercial imperatives and ethical imperatives.
