The time spent in silence and contemplation fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world, and, above all, the sublime things in Creation. Indeed, religion is born from this leisure. But in an AI world, such activities are deemed useless. For a long time, I have struggled with how to deal with AI. [...]
My rather simple contention is that AI is essentially duplicitous. The duplicity is built into the thing, and cannot be any other way, regardless of how much I may remind myself that this is just a bunch of plastic, metal, and wires. When we use it, we cannot but attribute to it supra-human powers, and [...]
Pope Leo’s educational vision aligns directly with the Catholic understanding of God’s creative goodness: He sees education as proceeding from our foundation as made in God’s image, which sees us as more than mere passive recipients of being, but cooperative causes in its creation. “The authentic teacher arouses the desire for truth” is found early [...]
The Vatican has issued an official document on AI. The Church is willing, in the face of an aggressively rising transhumanistic tide, to state the obvious: machines do not—and cannot—do what humans do or be who humans are. There are many—myself included—who are tempted to give a knee-jerk reaction, one that goes something like this: [...]
AI pronouncements mine our natural hope for an impersonal truth, not by outlasting man like granite, but by appearing to not need him at all. In truth, however, we make the word-collating machines, they feed on our words, and we intervene into their operations in order to produce correct and pleasing results. But in appearance, [...]
The purpose of human conversation is not limited to pragmatic ends, as if we only spoke in order to learn new recipes and get salient tips on what stocks to invest in. A good conversation is always a discovery of the person who reveals himself in speech. So much fighting concerning AI is really no [...]
Must Artificial Intelligence open the door to "that hideous strength" described by C.S Lewis? Time will tell, though I suspect the answer to the juggernaut that is Artificial Intelligence may well be the Babel scenario. In recent online postings, writer Rod Dreher has been commenting on various predictions of an apocalypse caused by Artificial Intelligence. [...]