AI

Letter #20, 2025, Mon, Feb 3: Vatican on AI

    Letter #20, 2025, Monday, February 3: Vatican on AI     The Vatican last week released a powerful and important new document on Artificial Intelligence, entitled ANTIQUA ET NOVA ["Ancient and new (wisdom)"]: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (link).     Essentially, the document teaches that the search for "artificial intelligence" risks -- risks -- [...]

Letter #48, 2024, Mon, Nov 11: Microsoft

   Pope Francis greets Microsoft President Brad Smith today in Vatican City. | Vatican Media         Letter #48, 2024, Monday, November 11: Microsoft     Microsoft and several other companies, in collaboration with the Fabbrica of San Pietro, spent the last two and a half years creating a stunning new visual presentation of the St. Peter's Basilica using drones [...]

Vatican expert in AI: “Its goodness or evil depends on us”

An interview with Fr. Philip Larrey, PhD, on how Catholics are grappling with the AI explosion By ITV staff Rev. Philip Larrey, Ph.D., held the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican for more than 20 years. He now teaches at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at [...]