Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
The article discusses the limitations of artificial intelligence compared to human intelligence. It emphasizes that AI systems do not possess emotions, moral conscience, or the ability to experience life as humans do. While AI can process data and imitate certain human functions, it lacks the depth of understanding and relational growth inherent to human beings.
- ▪Artificial intelligence cannot be equated with human intelligence.
- ▪AI systems do not experience emotions or possess a moral conscience.
- ▪The learning process of AI is based on statistical adaptation rather than personal growth.
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It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence. In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.
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