Notre-Dame Cathedral took five years to rebuild after the devastating fire, but a digital duplicate would have been much easier, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith noted last November. On Monday, he ...

In 2020, the Vatican hosted an event where tech leaders, EU regulators and the late Pope Francis discussed “human-centric” AI, which resulted in the Rome Call for AI Ethics, a document ...

In 2020, the Vatican published the “Rome Call for AI Ethics,” backed by Microsoft and IBM, among others. It urged developers to design AI systems that respect privacy, human rights and non ...

As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb. Announced at Build 2025, NLWeb lets websites provide a ...

Microsoft has hired Meta’s former engineering chief, Jay Parikh, to lead its new CoreAI team. Parikh is now focused on building an AI agent factory.

Pope Leo XIV says tech companies developing artificial intelligence should abide by an “ethical criterion” that respects human dignity. AI must take “into account the well-being of the human ...