OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, YOURS AND POPE LEO XIV'S

Breaking the rush to reflect is more than necessary. Especially in this moment of technological transition that brings us AI, artificial intelligence, under the fire of billions of information on the subject, which remains strange to 99.999% of the world's population. If the voice is the most appropriate, it is up to each one to decide. The fact is that the supreme leader of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, Pope Leo XIV, presented his encyclical under the title Magnificent Humanitas on the 135th anniversary of another important papal encyclical, which defines the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, Rerum Novarum. And the first encyclical of the current Pope, with its 43,600 words, 100 pages, is precisely about AI and the robotization of work.

The papal message requires a deep study, so a first reading does not only tell us about the concern with technological evolution, but as its own title says, about the relationship between man and technology. AI is not human, but a tool that is approaching the human mind and its soul. What's more, life is beautiful, humanity creates technology, which helps us develop society. And how is social exclusion with AI, that is, who dominates technology, and who will have access to it. Who controls the algorithms. Are we going to become a new Tower of Babel, reaching a self-destruction? And what to do with the unemployment that AI creates? These, and more other questions to reflect and define our lives, are in this document.

And reflecting, there are points such as regulation, unemployment, use for inappropriate purposes, such as disseminating untruths and use of AI for military purposes, especially autonomous weapons.

The question that arises immediately in Brazil is how to educate, that is, even requalify, from entrepreneurs and politicians to workers for the use of AI. And of course, how to accelerate our integration into this wave.

Another prominent issue is how, in electoral campaigns, AI tools will be used, especially in a negative way, and not in the dissemination of programs and candidate ideas. Our leaders may be worried, but are they technically prepared to exercise control? And then the question of regulation arises. With the experience we have from both the government and Congress, that old question fits: would you buy a used car from one of them?

If we add that AI is being dominated by a restricted group of trillionaires from Silicon Valley, loose in this capitalist wild world, to which China joins, we have another complex situation to be resolved.

Probably, the candidates, even if they are Catholic, will not read the papal encyclical. And this will probably not be a topic of debates. But it will undoubtedly be one of the most important variables of our lives in the future. Or without a future.