Africa-Press – Ghana. The 2025 Congress of the Union Catholique Africaine de la Presse (UCAP) has opened in Accra with a call 9n Catholic media practitioners to ensure that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies serve humanity without eroding human dignity.
Opening the Congress, Most Rev. John Baptist Attakruh, Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi and Episcopal Chairman of the Department of Social Communications of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, stressed that technological advancement must always prioritise humanity.
“As machines become more intelligent, it is our Christian duty to ensure that human dignity remains central to all progress,” he said.
In his goodwill message, Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, urged Catholic communicators to combat misinformation, sensationalism, and threats to truth in public discourse.
“AI must remain the servant of humanity, never its master,” he emphasised.
Archbishop Julien Kaboré, Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, called for a discerning approach to AI, “carefully, prayerfully, and courageously”, warning against idolising technology or allowing it to replace authentic human relationships.
He reminded participants that AI is just a tool, adding that Artificial Intelligence cannot love, forgive, or pray, but only the human person can seek what is true, what is good, and rejoice in what is beautiful.
Mr Ambrose Yennah, Chairman of the Ceremony, acknowledged AI’s potential to enhance storytelling and advance the Gospel but cautioned that it could not replicate empathy, emotional intelligence, or the human soul.
“Technology must remain the servant of humanity and not the opposite,” he said, urging African nations to actively prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “What is Africa doing? We must not be left out.”
He also connected AI ethics to Africa’s broader challenges, leadership deficits, corruption, and the need for holistic human development, calling on Catholic journalists to “advocate, educate, and create awareness” to ensure technology aligns with ethical principles.
The Congress received solidarity messages from the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, the Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), the Pan-African Episcopal Committee of Social Communications (CEPACS), SIGNIS Africa, the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), the Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), and the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana.
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