As leaders from the G7 nations gather in Italy, they will be joined for the first time, with the Holy See. Pope Francis, the Vatican announced, will take part in a discussion Friday on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence at a session.
Italy PM Meloni said the pope’s presence would “make a decisive contribution to defining a regulatory, ethical and cultural framework” for AI.The pope’s G7 presence breaks with a long tradition in the Catholic Church of refusing such invitations on the basis that a pontiff does not need state leaders or anyone else to offer him a platform to speak, said Alberto Melloni, an Italian historian.