Cardinal Bo to legislators: Work toward ban on autonomous lethal weapons

Cardinal Bo Urges Lawmakers to Reject the ‘Automated Slaughter’ of Autonomous Weapons

He warned Catholic legislators of their responsibility to be leaders in AI regulation during a peace summit in Assisi, Italy.

Cardinal Bo to legislators: Work toward ban on autonomous lethal weapons

Delivering a keynote address to Christian lawmakers and political leaders gathered in Assisi, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, warned against allowing algorithms to “systematically infantilize entire societies.” He urged lawmakers to “establish binding legal guardrails, demand corporate transparency, reject the automation of human slaughter, and ensure that technology remains entirely subservient to the magnificent humanity that …

Cardinal Bo urges Christian lawmakers to ban autonomous weapons

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has called on Christian legislators from around the world to “reject automated warfare” and support strong limits that keep the technology of artificial intelligence under human control.“As representatives of the people, your mandate is clear: You must champion an immediate, binding international ban on fully autonomous lethal weapons,” the cardinal and archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, said in Assisi, Italy, on Aug. 24.“T…