Spirit and the Machine: Catholic Responses to an Increasingly Artificial World

America Media EventsMay 12, 2021

Spirit & the Machine

Spirit and the Machine: Catholic Responses to an Increasingly Artificial World
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | 12:30 p.m. EST

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important technologies in the world today-- but it is also one rife with serious spiritual, social and ethical questions. Join us for a robust interdisciplinary discussion that aims to promote responsibility among organizations, governments, institutions of higher education, and the private sector and explore resources that the Catholic intellectual and social teaching tradition might offer to the conversation.

This event is presented by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage in partnership with America Media, and is co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.

Panelists include:
John W. Farrell, author and writer
Fr. Philip Larrey, Ph.D., Dean of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University
Ann (Gregg) Skeet, Senior Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Moderator:
Michael P. Murphy, Ph.D., Director, The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage

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