The Vatican’s Academy for Life, a studies agency that promotes the church’s existence ethic, announced it will jointly sponsor a prize with Microsoft (MSFT, +1.08%) for the first-class doctoral dissertation in 2019 on the subject of “artificial intelligence at the provider of human lifestyles.” The winner will acquire €6,000 ($6,800) and an invitation to Microsoft’s headquarters.
Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday on the Vatican to speak about the moral use of artificial intelligence and a way to bridge the virtual divide among rich and negative nations, Reuters reviews. Smith informed the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that “robust ethical and new, evolved laws” have been wished that generations such as A.I. Does no longer fall into the incorrect hands. The Microsoft president indexed ethics, A.I., and those-targeted tech amongst his top issues for 2019 in a LinkedIn publish last month. The 81-12 months-vintage Pope Francis, who once described himself as a “catastrophe.
When it comes to generation, he joined Twitter in 2013 (taking on the @pontifex cope with his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI) and Instagram in 2016. He now has nearly 18 million and 6 million followers on the structures, respectively. In January, the pope launched a prayer app called Click to Pray. “Internet and the social networks are a useful resource of our time, a manner to live in contact with others, to proportion values and initiatives, and to specify the choice to form a network,” he stated in that week’s prayer.
