Two Evangelical leaders sent an open letter to President Trump, expressing concerns about the risks posed by unregulated artificial intelligence and labor automation. They advocate for developing AI tools that can benefit humanity, like curing diseases, while strongly opposing the creation of autonomous smarter-than-human systems. Their concerns align with the recent statements of Pope Leo XIV, emphasizing the need to protect human dignity and labor rights amidst the evolving AI landscape. This letter highlights the emerging alliance between faith groups and AI safety advocates, stressing the need for caution as technology advances toward an era of artificial general intelligence.
As people of faith, we believe we should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control.
The world is grappling with a new reality because of the pace of the development of this technology, which represents an opportunity of great promise but also of potential peril especially as we approach artificial general intelligence.
The letter is a sign of growing ties between religious and AI safety groups, which share some of the same worries.
The world's biggest tech companies now all believe that it is possible to create so-called artificial general intelligence—a form of AI that can do any task better than a human expert.
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