Parolin: It is necessary to protect minors from artificial intelligence damage

Salvator Cinosio – Vatican City

“Exciting” tool, but at the same time “enormous”. The Pope said when talking about artificial intelligence. It was repeated by the Cardinal Foreign Minister, Petro Parolin, when it interferes on Friday, March 21, 2025 at the conference “Risks and Chances of Children’s IQ: a common commitment to childhood protection”, which is held in PIO VI casinos.

This event, dedicated to the subject of artificial intelligence, risks and opportunities that it raises for children, is organized by the Papabolic Academy in cooperation with the World Children’s Foundation and the Anthropology Institute (IADC) at Gregory Papal University. Among the participants are experts in childhood protection from various countries, leaders of technology companies and other sectors, members of civil society, religious organizations, horses, youth and “survivors of abuse of artificial intelligence”. Queen Silvia from Sweden and Princess Madeleine also attended.

Transparency, responsibility and fairness

Cardinal Parolin demands that they develop useful strategies to deal with this important challenge and “in rapid development”: “It is important for governments, technology companies, teachers, civil society and religious institutions to think about ethical regulations and government frameworks, as well as on the transparency of data and children stationed in children,” he says.

“It is not only necessary to ensure the safety of children, their privacy and respect for their dignity, but also to keep them from the damage caused by artificial intelligence. It is equally necessary to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness so that artificial intelligence is more useful for all children.”

Warning Pope

The Foreign Minister presents his speech from Francisco’s long speech against the Seven Group in June 2024 -The first door to participate in the “Great Earth” meeting, is fully dedicated to the subject of artificial intelligence.

“The strong technological progress makes artificial intelligence an exciting and enormous tool at the same time, and requires a reflection at the height of the challenge it represents.” Parolin added: “Artificial intelligence systems are unusually fast in their growth and growth, and they are about to reshape our societies deeply, and our childhood in particular.”

Technologies in the service of goodness

In the midst of such transformations, it is collective responsibility to ensure that “this new technology is placed in the service of goodness and security for every person, especially the most vulnerable, and preserving human dignity and social relations,” said Cardinal, you remember Notice the old and newDicasterio of faith and Dicascle for Culture and Education last January, on the issue of the relationship between human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Collective work and global cooperation

“Artificial intelligence has the ability to improve children’s safety, education, education and well for children. Meanwhile, it can also provide serious threats, such as online domination, privacy violations, addiction to artificial intelligence and online exploitation,” says Cardinal Parolin.

“Preventing the risks with the aspiration to exploit the benefits is not an easy task,” he admits, “This is not only due to the complexity of the field, but, as Pope Francis emphasized in Your message to the World Economic Forum in 2025Artificial intelligence raises basic issues on moral responsibility, human security and the broader effects of these developments of society. “

Consequently, they require that they search for “sufficient responses” based on specific and “principle of dependence, with individual users, families, civil society, companies, institutions, governments and international organizations that work at their appropriate levels to ensure that artificial intelligence is directed at the interest of everyone.” What is required, Brollin concludes, is “urgent and collective work and cooperation all over the world to ensure that this new technology serves, instead of undermining the dignity of all children in the digital age.”