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Father Paolo Benanti: Finding the heart and soul of AI

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith

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What Does Technology Mean When It Intersects?

In some ways the year almost felt like it began in November and December as people started to experiment and use chat GPT. We're seeing this I think every month in this year get more momentum certainly at Microsoft and with OpenAI we're taking all of these steps. But at its heart you also see people asking the questions you just posed. What does this mean for humanity? And as you said you have to think a little bit about what does it mean to be human? How do we govern this intersection? That takes us to another part of your journey? You're not only building on your engineering expertise and ethics but you have emerged in recent years as really the great technology and ethics advisor

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I want to just pause for a second and put an exclamation point next to some of what you just said. Because I think you captured issues that are just at the heart of public discussion rightly so as we go through the months of 2023. In some ways the year almost felt like it began in November and December as people started to experiment and use chat GPT. We're seeing this I think every month in this year get more momentum certainly at Microsoft and with OpenAI we're taking all of these steps. But at its heart you also see people asking the questions you just posed. What does this mean for humanity? And as you said you have to think a little bit about what does it mean to be human? What does technology mean when it intersects? How do we govern this intersection just as you were saying a little bit like how you govern the connection between Manhattan and Long Island in a way that takes us to another part of your journey? You're not only teaching at a great university in Rome. You're not only building on your engineering expertise and ethics but you have emerged in recent years as really the great technology and ethics advisor within the Vatican including to Pope Francis. How did that
Speaker 1
happen? Sometimes you did them project the results before you do it. Everything happened with human connection simple with the people that you meet, discussion that you have and when you pose questions and people say this is the same question that I had in my heart that happened that you find people that are connected and the same things happen with Microsoft. I meet people and sharing with people this deep kind of question, you build up a place in which those questions could be simple ask it and it happened also in the Vatican in the Holinesses so simple questioning technology not in the way in which someone would like to control and limit it but just asking why and not how much is too much but why and that happened that this connection arise and grow and grow at the end I'm here
Speaker 2
now.

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