News Summary

• Panel talk on ‘Shaping AI for the Common Good’ held at the Australian Catholic University.
• Father Paolo Benanti, an adviser to Pope Francis on AI, was joined by other experts on the subject.
• Benanti raised the concept of an AI ‘license’ or a registration by which AI users were accountable to state-based regulators and identifiable via personal registration.
• He said AI can be used to serve the common good of minority groups when it had so often been used to denigrate them.