Rome, 24 January (LaPresse) – ‘Giving up the creative process and surrendering our mental functions and imagination to machines means burying the talents we have received in order to grow as people in relation to God and others. It means hiding our face and silencing our voice.’ So said Pope Leo XIV in a message sent for the 60th World Communications Day on the theme “Safeguarding human voices and faces”. "Although AI can provide support and assistance in managing communication tasks, shirking the effort of our own thinking and settling for artificial statistical compilations risks eroding our cognitive, emotional and communicative abilities in the long run. In recent years, artificial intelligence systems have also increasingly taken control of the production of texts, music and videos. Much of the human creative industry is thus at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label “Powered by AI”, transforming people into mere passive consumers of unthought thoughts, anonymous products, without authorship, without love," continued the Pontiff, 'while the masterpieces of human genius in the fields of music, art and literature are reduced to a mere training ground for machines. The question that is close to our hearts, however, is not what machines can or will be able to do, but what we can and will be able to do, growing in humanity and knowledge, with the wise use of such powerful tools at our service. Man has always been tempted to appropriate the fruits of knowledge without the effort of involvement, research and personal responsibility."
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