Robots can give you facts. But they can’t give you faith.
Technology
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What a TikTok ban would mean to two Gen-Z Catholics
The problem is not that TikTok users feel disappointed about the potential loss of an entertaining social platform; it is that many young people see a ban on TikTok as the end of, or at least a major disruption to, their social life.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic Answers’ AI ‘priest’ laicized after backlash
AI priest “Father Justin,” a chatbot used to answer questions about the Catholic faith, has been renamed “Justin” and swapped out his virtual clerics for a button-down shirt after facing backlash from online users just one day after launching.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
All is fair in A.I. warfare. But what do Christian ethics have to say?
The great danger of artificial intelligence is not that it is ineffective. It can also perform quite effectively. In fact, it is already transforming modern warfare.
Posted inFaith, News
Meet the Franciscan friar advising Pope Francis on AI ethics
Friar Paolo Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on A.I. technology, and he has the ear of Pope Francis as well as some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers and executives.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Is being rich bad for your soul? Yes, but not for the reason you expect
Our consumerist throwaway culture has severe and palpable noneconomic effects, driving the resort to abortion, assisted suicide, and even the way we treat animals in factory farms.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis’ World Day of Peace message: AI must not compete with human potential
The huge advances in new information technologies, the pope said, “offer exciting opportunities and grave risks, with serious implications for the pursuit of justice and harmony among peoples.”
Posted inFaith, Opinion
Scientists created a human embryo without sperm or an egg. We should be disgusted—and worried.
With new technology that aims to manufacture a human embryo without sperm or egg, are scientists coming too close to playing God?
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis’ peace day message: A.I. must be used in ‘service of humanity’
Signaling the Vatican’s growing engagement in efforts to ensure the ethical development of new technologies, the Vatican has announced that “Artificial Intelligence and Peace” will be the theme for the next World Day of Peace.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My children think tech will let them live forever. Our faith tells us why we shouldn’t try.
Birth and death bookend our temporal experience, but we are called to fill everything between them with love and mercy and decency, not cling to fantasies of a fraudulent eternity.