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教皇新通谕为人类应对AI时代提供行动指南

在人工智能飞速发展、全球监管却相对滞后的背景下，教皇利奥十四世日前颁布了题为《崇高的人性》的新通谕，为个人与社会如何驾驭这一技术浪潮提供了深刻洞见。通谕开宗明义地指出：“技术绝非中性”，这无疑是对科技界与政策制定者的郑重警示。

教皇将人类在AI时代面临的选择，比作圣经中的两幅图景：是重蹈“巴别塔”的覆辙——为了无节制增长而忽视代价，最终导致分裂与失败；还是效仿“尼希米重建耶路撒冷”——在共同责任与团结协作中，以人为中心、以信仰为基石，重建共同的人性。

通谕特别强调，人工智能并非某种不可捉摸的超自然力量，而是一种在特定历史时期诞生的商业产品。这个时代的显著特征是，商业与社会的巨大权力正日益集中在极少数人手中。这一观点与当前全球范围内方兴未艾的“负责任投资”运动不谋而合。

事实上，当各国政府监管缺位、企业又难以自律时，社会中的投资者群体已率先行动。多年来，包括管理着超过4000亿美元资产的“宗教企业责任中心”成员在内的机构投资者，一直在通过股东提案，向科技巨头施压，要求其在AI部署中实现透明、风险评估与问责。

这些行动已触及多个领域：在军事领域，投资者要求Alphabet、亚马逊、英伟达等公司确保AI不被用于暴力或侵犯人权——这一诉求在近期某冲突中使用AI识别轰炸目标的悲剧中显得尤为迫切；在医疗领域，投资者敦促CVS、联合健康集团等企业保障AI不损害患者福祉；在环保领域，微软、Meta等公司被要求正视AI数据中心巨大的能耗与水资源消耗；在创意产业，迪士尼、奈飞等公司则被要求保护人类在讲故事中的不可替代性。

通谕最后发出时代之问：百年之后，后人将如何铭记我们今天的抉择？是坐视一小撮巨富之人掌控全人类共同命运，还是借此契机，共同重建我们崇高的人性？答案在于，每一位怀有良好意愿的人，都应秉持各自的信仰或价值观，以勇气与团结，将AI引向服务人类共同福祉的道路。

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教皇《崇高人性》通谕为个人应对人工智能时代提供了范本
尽管缺乏监管，我们仍能引导人工智能朝着造福人类共同福祉的方向发展。
教皇利奥十四世关于人工智能的新通谕中有一句话值得科技工作者和政策制定者认真对待：“技术从来不是中立的。”《崇高人性》是一声警钟，呼吁所有人以勇气和团结的姿态迎接这个已被人工智能深刻改变的时代——这是自工业革命以来人类生活最大的变革。正如教皇所言，我们面前的选择——人工智能带来的选择——要么是巴别塔，要么是重建我们共同的人性。
在圣经中关于巴别塔的故事里，人类试图建造一座直通天际的巨塔，然而上帝使参与建造的人彼此语言不通，最终计划落空。这是一种执着于无休止增长的追求，完全漠视上帝的诫命和人类付出的代价，最终导致了失败与分崩离析。
而《尼希米记》则提供了一个截然不同的叙事：在经历了暴力和流离失所之后，耶路撒冷的重建成为人类展现合作韧性的契机。正如通谕所言：“这座城市的重生，并非依靠一人之力，而是所有人共同承担责任的结果：男人、女人、祭司、工匠、一家之主和年轻人都贡献了自己的力量。这是一项以上帝为中心的事业，在重建石头之前，先重建了人与人之间的关系。”
我们目前正沿着哪条道路狂奔，这难道还有疑问吗？我们最好携手同行的道路是哪条，这难道还需要怀疑吗？
我们都是天主教徒，属于修会团体，并且长期在倡导社会责任投资的运动中活跃。我们以及这个运动格外关注的是，教皇利奥指出：人工智能并非某种自然力量或超理性、难以言喻的实体。相反，他提醒我们，人工智能归根结底是一种商业产品，而它诞生的历史节点上，对商业及更广泛社会的过度权力已集中在极少数人手中。
这是一个强有力的信息。机构投资者多年来也一直在践行这一点。这份通谕与其说开辟了新天地，不如说认可了一项已经在进行中的治理努力——而这项努力的引领者并非国家或国际组织，而是股东。当政府未能实施有效的监管，当企业无法被信任会做出超越自身利润底线的有益行为时，社会中的民众仍然有能力让我们走上正确的道路，并且确实有责任这样做。
在全球范围内，人工智能系统正在大规模部署，而机构的监督却少得惊人。没有人工智能安全委员会。美国联邦贸易委员会对不公平行为拥有管辖权，但对算法设计的权力有限。美国国家标准与技术研究院发布的指南，大多数公司都视而不见。欧盟《人工智能法案》已部分生效，但只涉及部署领域的一小部分。
机构投资者已经介入了这一真空地带。包括宗教间企业责任中心成员在内的联盟，代表管理着超过4000亿美元资产的投资者，在过去几个代理投票季中提交了多项决议，要求对人工智能部署保持透明度、进行风险评估并追究责任。非宗教的机构投资者也加入了他们，将人工智能治理失败视为重大的商业风险。
股东们要求Alphabet、亚马逊、英伟达、Palantir和优步等科技巨头承担责任，并拒绝将人工智能用于暴力行为或其他侵犯人权的行为。这一公司治理方面的重要性在对伊朗战争爆发的最初几小时内得到了悲剧性的凸显——当时人工智能被用来帮助识别数千次导弹袭击的目标，导致数百人死亡。
投资者还向CVS和联合健康集团的高管提出挑战，要求确保人工智能不被用于损害全美患者的福祉和医疗质量。
在Meta和微软等公司，股东们谴责了人工智能数据中心对环境的影响——这些中心消耗大量能源和宝贵的水资源，并可能排放大量温室气体。
在创意产业中，投资者向迪士尼、奈飞和华纳兄弟等公司的领导层提出质疑，要求他们公开使用人工智能的方式，并捍卫故事讲述中不可替代的人类元素。
很快，随着OpenAI、Anthropic和Grok都准备进入公开市场，我们将能够对那些目前仍为私人持有的实体施加类似的影响力。
这些由忧心忡忡的投资者所采取的行动，不仅揭露了不端行为，也坚守着一个不变的真理：利用技术去杀害、伤害或压迫他人是错误的。每个人都享有安全有效的医疗保健权利，以及获得有尊严的谋生机会。我们彼此讲述的故事至关重要，并且需要人类创造的火花。
投资者倡导者来自不同的信仰传统。有些人没有正式的宗教信仰。然而，在他们知情且坚持不懈的倡导中，所有这些人都呼应了教皇利奥通谕中的呼吁，并践行了其宣言：“至关重要的是，人工智能的使用，尤其是在涉及公共物品和基本权利时，必须由明确的标准和有效的监督来指导。”
通谕标记着时代。一个世纪后，我们将如何被铭记，取决于我们如何应对这个时刻？我们会被视为过于胆怯或短视，未能阻止一小撮极度富有且自私自利的人对人类大家庭共同命运施加越来越大的控制吗？
还是未来的岁月将被铭记为一个帮助我们重建共同人性的转折点？但愿这是一个时代，善意且拥有各种才能的人们通过他们自身崇高的人性走到一起，共同建设一个荣耀造物主的未来。
—— 谢默斯·芬恩神父（OMI），是信仰导向和社会责任投资领域的全球领导者，也是无原罪圣母献主会（一个传教士修会）的神父。
—— 苏珊·弗朗索瓦修女，是圣若瑟和平修女会的助理修会领袖兼修会财务主管。

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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age already being transformed by artificial intelligence, the greatest change in human life since the Industrial Revolution. As the pope says, the choice before us—the choice AI presents—is one between the Tower of Babel and the rebuilding of our common humanity.
In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, humans sought to build a massive structure that reached all the way to Heaven, only to have their project thwarted when God made those involved unable to understand one another. It was a pursuit fixated on relentless growth, divorced from any concern about God’s commandments or the human cost. It resulted in failure and atomization.
The Book of Nehemiah, however, offers a contrasting narrative, in which the rebuilding of Jerusalem after a period of violence and displacement becomes an opportunity for humanity to show its collaborative resilience. As the encyclical puts it, “The city is reborn, not through the initiative of one man, but through the shared responsibility of all: men, women, priests, artisans, heads of households and young people all play a part. It is an undertaking with God at the center, which rebuilds relationships before rebuilding with stones.”
Is there any question which road we are currently barreling down? And can there be any doubt which we would do well to walk together?
We are both Catholics, members of religious communities and longtime advocates within the movement for socially responsible investment. Of particular interest to us and that movement is Pope Leo’s point that AI is not some force of nature or hyperrational, ineffable entity. Instead, he reminds us, AI is ultimately another commercial product, one emerging at a point in history when excessive power over commerce and the wider society has amassed in a vanishingly small number of hands.
It’s a powerful message. It’s also one that institutional investors have been acting on for years. This encyclical doesn’t break new ground so much as ratify a governance effort that’s already underway, led not by states or international bodies but by shareholders. When governments fail to meaningfully regulate, and corporations cannot be trusted to do what is beneficial beyond their own bottom line, people in society still have the power to set us on the right path, and indeed have the duty to do so.
Around the world, AI systems are being deployed at scale with remarkably little institutional oversight. There is no AI safety board. The US Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over unfair practices but limited authority over algorithmic design. The National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes guidance that most companies ignore. The EU AI Act is partially in force but addresses only a sliver of the deployment surface.
Institutional investors have stepped into this vacuum. Coalitions including the membership of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, representing investors managing over $400 billion in assets, have spent the past several proxy seasons filing resolutions demanding transparency, risk assessment, and accountability around AI deployment. Secular institutional investors have joined them, treating AI governance failures as material business risks.
Shareholders have called tech giants including Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and Uber to account and demanded that AI not be used for acts of violence or other violations of human rights. The importance of this aspect of corporate governance was highlighted tragically in the opening hours of the war against Iran, when AI was used to help identify targets for thousands of missile strikes that killed hundreds of people.
Investors have also challenged executives at CVS and UnitedHealth Group to ensure that AI not be used to undermine the well-being of patients and quality of health care across the United States.
At companies including Meta and Microsoft, shareholders have decried the environmental impact of AI data centers, which consume vast amounts of energy and precious water resources, and in turn can emit large amounts of greenhouse gases.
Within creative industries, investors have challenged the leadership at companies like Disney, Netflix, and Warner Bros. to demand transparency about the ways they are using AI and to defend the inimitable human element in storytelling.
Soon, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Grok all set to enter the public markets, we will be able to exert similar influence over what are now all privately held entities.
These actions by concerned investors not only call out misdeeds but hold fast to an immutable truth: that it is wrong to use technology to kill, harm, or oppress people. Every human being has a right to safe and effective health care and the opportunity to earn a dignified living. The stories we tell each other matter and require the human creative spark.
Investor advocates hail from a range of faith traditions. Some have no formal religious faith. Yet in their informed and tenacious advocacy, all these people echo the calls embedded within Pope Leo’s encyclical and act on its declaration that “it is essential that the use of AI, especially when it touches on public goods and fundamental rights, be guided by clear criteria and effective oversight.”
Encyclicals mark time. A century from now, how will we be remembered for how we met this moment? Will we be seen as having been too timid or shortsighted to prevent a small group of unfathomably wealthy and self-interested people from seizing ever greater control over the human family’s shared destiny?
Or will the years ahead be remembered as a turning point that helped us rebuild our common humanity? Let this be a time when people of good will and diverse talents come together through their own magnificent humanity to build a future that honors our Creator.
Father Séamus Finn, OMI, is a global leader in faith-based and socially responsible investing and a priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a missionary religious congregation.
Sister Susan Francois is the assistant congregation leader and congregation treasurer for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.
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