What Does ChatGPT Have To Do With Slavery

Catholic theologian Léocadie Lushombo praised Pope Leo’s ‘prophetic’ inclusion of care for digital workers and encouraged people to ‘care about knowing’ how their use of AI products affects other people.

When most people type a question into an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, it may not occur to them that the speedy and friendly responses they receive could have any connection with sweatshop-style dehumanizing labor. Pope Leo XIV is hoping to make this connection clearer. In Magnifica Humanitas, the new papal encyclical on safeguarding human dignity amid the rise of AI, the Pope vividly highlights “new forms of slavery” that AI is already facilitating, writing that the benefits of enhanced efficiency and other innovations are not to be celebrated if they are “built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden.”

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