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Even the Vatican has thoughts on how AI should be regulated.

Pope Francis has teamed up with Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics to create a handbook for navigating the ethics of artificial intelligence technology.

Instead of commandments, the handbook provides seven guiding principles — such as “Respect for Human Dignity and Rights.” I guess that means he saw those swag Pope deep fakes after all?

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