Pope says without decisions condemned to a hopeless future

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 14 - Humanity is condemned to a hopeless future without making tough decisions itself, and not by machines, Pope Francis told a Group of Seven session on artificial intelligence Friday, the first pope to attend a G7 summit.
    It is man who must always decide, not machines, was the Pope's appeal to the G7 leaders.
    "Faced with the prodigies of the machines, which seem to be able to choose independently, we must be clear that it must always remain for the human being to decide, even with the dramatic and urgent tones with which this sometimes presents itself in our lives," he said.
    We would condemn humanity to a hopeless future if we took away people's ability to decide about themselves and their lives, condemning them to depend on the choices of machines," Francis warned. (ANSA).