Swiss Catholic bishops have joined other Christian leaders in the country to issue guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence, based on concern for the way AI affects the human person and human relationships.
While the guidelines are significantly more robust than those offered by dioceses in the United States, the Swiss bishops told The Pillar Friday that AI was used “intentionally” in their production.
“As relational beings, humans develop through their relationships with their environment and are, at the same time, shaped by what they themselves creatively produce. This also applies to their tools and technologies: they are never merely neutral instruments, but have a reciprocal effect on those who use them,” the English working translation of the document said.
The joint statement, titled “Humanity in the Digital Age,” was released Monday by the Swiss bishops’ conference, the Council of the Protestant Church in Switzerland, the Bishop and the Synodal Council of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland, the heads of the umbrella organization Freikirchen.ch and the Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA).
The document emphasized that developing AI technologies “change not only what we do, but
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