The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has issued a statement today, Friday 2 February, entitled “A European Call for Responsibility – Ethical demands for a human-centric artificial intelligence”, welcoming the EU’s recent adoption of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulation. Mgr Anton Jamnik, chairman of the COMECE Commission on Ethics, said “it is the first robust EU regulatory framework for AI that does justice to the ethical foundations of the European Union”. COMECE said in its statement that it opposes the assignment of legal personality to robots and AI systems, arguing instead that such designation should be reserved solely for natural or legal persons. The EU Bishops support Pope Francis’ call for a legally binding international treaty on artificial intelligence. They stress the “importance” of fundamental ethical principles and the requirement that AI systems should be “designed to serve and protect people and the environment, devoid of any bias or discriminatory tendencies and exclude anthropomorphizing”.