United Nations (New York), September 24 (askanews) – "Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live, work, produce, and make decisions in just a few years," with "the risk of new inequalities, dependencies, and forms of domination." In his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani warned that "entire professions could disappear or transform" and that falsification and manipulation of reality will become increasingly easy.
But he also emphasized the opportunities of AI in medicine, research, education, and environmental protection. Tajani emphasized the need for common rules, transparency, oversight, and security, while avoiding "bureaucratic cages that only a few would respect." Pope Leo XIV, in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, recalled that no algorithm can make decisions in place of a conscience, and that any technology capable of striking without seeing the other's face lowers the moral threshold of conflict.
"Italy shares this vision," he said. "But governing innovation doesn't mean demonizing it," the minister continued. "Artificial intelligence can open up possibilities that are unimaginable today. In medicine, for example, in research, in education, in production, and in environmental protection. Every major technological advance has created fears, but also opportunities and, over time, greater well-being.
Certainly, going back is not possible, it would not be desirable, but neither can we hand over the future to unregulated technology. We don't need bureaucratic cages that only a few would respect. Instead, we need a balance between transparency, control, security, and intellectual property protection. We need to share the benefits of innovation and build tools for mutual control. This is precisely the task of the United Nations: to define common rules before events or the strongest forces impose them.
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