Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

The Bishop of Hong Kong said last week that AI was definitely not a gift from the devil at a meeting of his peers across Asia that called for sensible engagement with the technology.

However, the get-together also fretted over the possibility of fake "intimacy," LLM-generated homilies, and digital idolatry as AI permeates the world of faith.

The Federation of Asian Bishops called for the Church to "respond wisely and pastorally" to the rise of AI, according to Radio Veritas Asia.

Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the Bishop of Hong Kong, opened the meeting declaring AI was a "gift from God," not "from the devil," The Japan Times reports.

In a concluding statement, the bishops said AI was an "expression of human creativity" and offered promise and peril. "The Church does not reject or fear AI but seeks to engage it with prudence and an incarnational vision rooted in human relationships ...