{"id":7388,"date":"2026-10-30T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:11:22","slug":"bill-gates-to-vatican-news-ai-cannot-regulate-itself-and-must-be-governed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/2026\/10\/30\/bill-gates-to-vatican-news-ai-cannot-regulate-itself-and-must-be-governed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates to Vatican News: AI Cannot Regulate Itself and Must Be Governed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1064.96px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In an interview with Vatican News by Roberto Cetera, published on 13 October 2026 and also carried by L\u2019Osservatore Romano, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that artificial intelligence \u201cis not something the industry can self-regulate\u201d and \u201cmust be led by neutral actors, primarily governments.\u201d He added that \u201cmost people in government don\u2019t fully understand how the technology works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates said that \u201cwe are not paying enough attention to the risks\u201d and are not doing enough to take up AI\u2019s opportunities in health, education and agriculture. Left to the market, he warned, the most capable tools \u201cwill get built first for whoever can pay the most, not for whoever needs them most.\u201d He called for more AI expertise inside governments and for governments to work with industry and with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Pope Leo XIV\u2019s encyclical <em>Magnifica humanitas<\/em>, Gates said he had read it and found that it \u201clays a strong foundation for the work that needs to be done.\u201d He noted that the Pope \u201cisn\u2019t saying \u2018stop AI\u2019\u201d but argues that \u201cwe need to actively preserve what\u2019s human,\u201d pointing to roles such as caring for children, serving as a judge or juror, and parts of medicine \u201cwhere the relationship itself is the point.\u201d He said the engagement of the Catholic Church and other religious groups in the AI debate is \u201ccritical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a Catholic framework on these questions, see Evangelii Network Japan\u2019s paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/catholic-ai-human-dignity\/\">Catholic AI and Human Dignity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/world\/news\/2026-10\/bill-gates-technology-is-a-world-in-need-of-governance.html\">Vatican News: Bill Gates: Technology is a world in need of governance (13 October 2026)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osservatoreromano.va\/it\/news\/2026-10\/quo-232\/la-tecnologia-un-mondo-che-ha-bisogno-di-essere-governato.html\">L\u2019Osservatore Romano: La tecnologia, un mondo che ha bisogno di essere governato<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Vatican News, Bill Gates said AI must be guided by governments rather than self-regulated, and praised Magnifica humanitas for urging that what is human be actively preserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}