Whatever financial gains can be made from selling a pornographic movie to a hotel guest, though, could be more than canceled out by the lost goodwill of other hotel guests
Technology
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What are the dangers of artificial intelligence in our brave new world of self-driving cars?
America This Week Our guest this week is John Miller. We talk to him about his article What are the dangers of artificial intelligence in our brave new world of self-driving cars? We also discuss some of the stories our editors are most thankful for from the year: Vatican Christmas stamps feature inmate’s art No one […]
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Why Catholic colleges should ban access to pornography
Many students turn to porn because of loneliness or frustration. But colleges should encourage a healthier view of human sexuality than what is found in the exploitative underbelly of the web.
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Ancient heresies find new expression in “Westworld” and “Altered Carbon”
Some of TV’s top sci-fi dramas are shot through with neo-gnostic assumptions.
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Should we be worried about A.I.? Theologians, philosophers and Catholic thinkers weigh in
As Facebook, Apple and Google pour billions into artificial intelligence, ethicists and moral philosophers are racing to keep up, and Catholic thinkers are looking ahead to the possible harms to humanity.
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50 years after “Humanae Vitae,” we still buy into the myth of the self-made man
It is not simply children whom we seek to design but our own selves.
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Catholic teaching has space for self-driving cars
The protection of human life is paramount in Catholic teaching, and it is the greatest argument for autonomous driving technology.
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Astronauts give Pope Francis a custom space suit
The blue flight suit bears the pope’s name, a pair of angel wings, and a short white cape.
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Can the church keep up with artificial intelligence?
The pope’s message in Davos was one of a spate of recent Catholic discussions of a technology that is rapidly making its way into our everyday lives, in virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, the phones in our pockets and, soon enough, in self-driving cars.
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Can the Catholic Church help young people figure out how to use social media?
Many described technology as something of a necessary evil.