# Rome Call for AI Ethics (Pontifical Academy for Life, 28 February 2020)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Holy See (Vatican)
- **Instrument type**: Framework
- **Status**: Voluntary standard
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Pontifical Academy for Life (RenAIssance Foundation)
- **Adopted**: 2020-02-28

## In brief

Rome Call for AI Ethics is a non-binding framework of the Holy See (Vatican), issued by Pontifical Academy for Life (RenAIssance Foundation). Its current status is voluntary standard. Voluntary declaration for signatory organisations; no legal obligations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

A declaration of six principles for the ethical development of AI (transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, security and privacy), first signed in February 2020 by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO and the Italian government, and since joined by other religious leaders, universities and companies. It calls for "algor-ethics" and human-centred design and is used as a reference in faith-based and corporate AI ethics commitments.

## Scope

Voluntary declaration for signatory organisations; no legal obligations.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0083 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0083; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/holy-see-rome-call-for-ai-ethics
- **Official source**: https://www.romecall.org/
- **Source document**: Rome Call for AI Ethics
- **Published by**: RenAIssance Foundation / Pontifical Academy for Life
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Rome Call for AI Ethics (Pontifical Academy for Life, 28 February 2020)" [AIPT-POL-0083, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0083 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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