Digital media, artificial intelligence and the elderly

Simon Carlo*

Pope Francis, in Christianity of old age, was collected in the book “Life: Lessons on Caming”, and urges us to see the elderly as valuable resources for society. This is especially important at a time when the integration of the elderly is tested through an increasingly and accelerated individual society.

The fast digitization of the media requires a continuous update and makes users less readable and writing, such as the elderly. Let’s think about all these public utilities services (health, taxes, and pensions) that are now almost completely digital and cannot be accessed for those who have no internet connection, computer skills or digital identity; Ironically, the main beneficiaries of these services are the elderly, who suffer from more difficulties in technology.

In recent years, the media has suffered another major transformation with artificial intelligence. This technological acceleration also brings the concerns and reflections of ethical nature and belief. The Holy Father also summoned in his mission to the workshop organized by the papal academy for life, the “good” algorithm “? Artificial intelligence: ethics, law, health”, in February 2020, can provide the principles and teachings of social doctrine of social integration in everything in general costs, and they are in their integration in general, and between “discrimination or exceptions”, either that related to age.

Pope Francis’s words are charged in Laudato again if “about the risk of delegating technologies and tasks previously carried out by human beings: for the elderly population, this replacement is not only a danger to the impoverishment of social relations, but a real obstacle to access to public services and other services in the year. Given these difficulties, the entire society must respond, as Francisco suggests, remember the priority of human communication as a relationship between people, and a model A reference for all types of communicative relationship, as well as the media. This is especially important for the elderly who, more than others, ask for communication techniques not to replace human relations, or in relation to their loved ones, or in interacting with public services.