The Dignity of Human Life and Intelligence

More recently, certain artificial systems have even been

given the

name of our human faculty of thought,

intelligence.

At the same time, however, our ideas and

relationships risk being impoverished by a

process of dehumanization.

The paradox has become increasingly evident.

While intelligence is attributed to computational systems,

we struggle to recognize the inalienable dignity of human

persons whose lives are judged according to the

criterion of efficiency, and when deemed no longer

productive, they're rejected and discarded.

This painful reality invites us to reflect

both on the fragility of our human nature and on the immense

dignity of every human person, a dignity that remains

undiminished even in the most vulnerable circumstances, even

to death itself.

The human being is certainly one who is born, but also

one who dies.

Our dignity is not destroyed by illness or suffering, nor is it

dependent upon our abilities. Rather, it calls

for loving care at every stage of life.

For the Christian faith, the mystery of the human person finds its

fullest light in Christ, who in the very revelation of the

mystery of the Father and of his love fully reveals humanity to

itself and brings to light its very high calling.

In his light, every person appears to us as a creature

willed and loved by God.

This light also helps us to grasp more deeply the meaning of our shared

human experience.

Ladies and gentlemen,

as men and women of science,

you are called to cooperate unremittingly in the name of our common

history, so that from a diversity of perspectives,

a

convergence of vision may emerge, and from

this convergence, a harmony of action.