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.
Technology
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.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is ChatGPT here to stay in higher education? Not if teachers resist it.
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Most parishes are at risk for cyber scams and attacks. Here’s what they (and you) can do to keep safe.
Cybersecurity at Catholic parishes is less robust than it could be, but several free and low-cost resources can bolster defenses.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: Will ChatGPT change the Catholic Church? Should it?
What is the Catholic Church’s approach to technology, and what do A.I. and ChatGPT have in store for it?