Archbishop Ettore Balestrero on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Archbishop Ettore Balestrero

Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva.

[R]equiring that AI be transparent in automated decision-making, to ensure “the chain of accountability tracing responsibility from developers to deployers at every AI lifecycle stage.”

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Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, “Holy See: Robust governance on AI is needed to ensure it serves humanity,” Vatican News, July 8, 2026.

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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models

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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

Every critical choice made by an automated system must have human oversight, and speed and efficiency should not take precedence over the impact on human lives.

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Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable

AI [must] be transparent in automated decision-making, to ensure “the chain of accountability tracing responsibility from developers to deployers at every AI lifecycle stage.”

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

Indeed, since full moral causality belongs only to personal agents and not to artificial ones, if AI is to be used to uphold human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility for its use must remain with human decision-makers, with accoun...

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