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, which is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2024.
Catholic universities must not recoil from the daunting risks of artificial intelligence but become proactively involved in its ethical development, said the head of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.
Catholic universities are obligated "to a delicate exercise of responsibility" in the "new
Joseph Vukov is an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also an affiliate faculty member in psychology and Catholic Studies. He is the author of "Navigating Faith and Science" (2022) and "The Perils of Perfection: On the
For 17 years, the media ethics conference at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow has gathered media researchers from all over the country. This year it attracted a record number of academics. The reason? The main topic was the
The promise of generative artificial intelligence — ChatGPT and similar projects — is, as Scott Richert has written recently, likely to be far less than its proponents claim or its detractors fear, precisely because what AI generates is not truly something new
In the latest in his series of columns on generative artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT, OSV Publisher Scott Richert writes that one of the key limitations of AI is its inability to comprehend the historical meaning of words. “Such insights are
Eyebrows were raised recently when the board of Virginia’s Marymount University dumped its majors in art, economics, English, history, philosophy, theology and religious studies, among others.
The university explained that the decision reflected “our responsibility to prepare them for the fulfilling, in-demand careers
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor editor Father Patrick Briscoe writes that while fake news is rampant and AI generated images can trick us into believing what we ordinarily would not, the evidence that Christ died on the cross and rose
Pope Francis asked tech leaders to measure the value of their innovations not in processing power or profit potential, but in their capacity to promote human dignity.
The people behind chatbots are asking questions of priests and ethicists rather than turning to their artificially intelligent creations. They want to know: What is consciousness? What is the nature of humanity? What is the purpose of life?
According to Father Phillip Larrey,