artificial intelligence

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

We’re in the midst of a true technological and cultural revolution with the advent of real-world artificial intelligence. Most people are focused on the economic impact of AI, but as Catholics we need to look deeper. What are the benefits of this amazing technology and what are the drawbacks?

The “Sputnik Moment” Delusion

For at least a century or more, Westerners have been conditioned to see each new discovery and invention as a point in some grand civilizational competition. Connected to this framing is the simplistic belief in material progress.

Keep AI out of the Choir Loft

AI’s role in the choir loft should never replace the real men and women who sing “unto the Lord a new song” and tell “of his salvation from day to day.”

Elon Musk: Happy Totalitarian

You may have caught wind of the latest attempt by Elon Musk to improve upon our human lot, this time by wiring our brains into computers through implanted chips connected to ultrathin threads lacing our brain (hence, the name “neuralace”). If you can’t decipher his white paper, then catch his popular presentation on YouTube. The … Read more

Made in the Image of Man: How Big Tech Threatens our Humanity

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” — Genesis 1: 27 (RSV) In our time of digital revolution, the imagination is fast becoming obsolete. The company Neuralink is preparing to launch clinical human trials by next year of an implant … Read more

How Is a Man Not Like a Computer?

I have just read a fascinating and, to my mind, cheerful article, by the research psychologist Robert Epstein, on why your brain is not a computer—for the simple reason that your brain does not store memories in the way that a computer does, nor does it function according to algorithms. We are not computers but … Read more

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