Vatican working group member Brian Patrick Green says AI slowdown calls are reasonable

Brian Patrick Green, a member of the Vatican working group on AI ethics, said that recent calls from technology leaders to slow the development of artificial intelligence are reasonable. Green, who also directs technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, noted that the judgment of those closest to the technology should be respected because they understand its capabilities.

Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard, described these warnings as overdue. His firm developed Magisterium AI, an engine trained on official Church teaching.

The calls for a slowdown come from several industry figures, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk of SpaceXAI. Approximately 1,400 employees from frontier AI companies have signed a statement requesting that the U.S. government support international efforts to pace the development of automated AI. This comes as regulation varies globally and within the United States, where federal preferences for minimal controls contrast with various state-level legislative efforts.