Peter Monthienvhichienchai, SIGNIS secretary general and executive director of LiCAS.news, talks about social communications and artificial intelligence with the Asian Bishops in a meeting hosted by the FABC-OSC in Thailand on Nov 21 (Photo by LiCAS.news)
Nov 28 2023
“Church communicators must commune with one another and the people they communicate about. Communion combats individualism bred by AI and similar technologies,” said Peter Monthienvhichienchai.
Monthienvhichienchai, who is the executive director of LiCAS.news, made the statement during the 28th annual Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC)-Office of Social Communication (OSC) Bishops’ Meet in Thailand last week.
He said the rapidly developing AI technology has unearthed “a crisis in people’s values” and unveiled how the human family values “authenticity and human interaction”.
“In the age of AI, people matter, particularly the often victimized poor and vulnerable,” he said.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Sebastian Francis of Penang called for the protection of the “universality of diversity,” adding, “Our universality must reflect the universality of the Trinitarian God.”
The prelate stressed that “there should be no room for dominance by any one culture, nation, religion, creed, language, or technology.”
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