Pope calls on G7 leaders to ban use of autonomous weapons

Pontiff says machines should never be able to decide whether human beings live or die

Pope Francis has made a historic address to G7 leaders urging them to recognise they have the power to decide if artificial intelligence becomes a terrifying or creative tool, and calling on them to ban the use of autonomous weapons in war.

In the first address by a pope to a meeting of G7 leaders, he said it should never be for machines to decide …

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