Encountering Artificial Intelligence
Ethical and Anthropological Investigations
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
What does it mean to consider the world of AI through a Christian lens? Rapid developments in AI continue to reshape society, raising new ethical questions and challenging our understanding of the human person. Encountering Artificial Intelligence draws on Pope Francis's discussion of a culture of encounter and broader themes in Catholic social thought in order to examine how current AI applications affect human relationships in various social spheres and offers concrete recommendations for better implementation. The document also explores questions regarding personhood, consciousness, and the kinds of relationships humans might have with even the most advanced AI. Through these discussions, the document investigates the theoretical and practical challenges to interpersonal encounter raised by the age of AI.
Endorsements (5)
“This Vatican-inspired assembly of informed and insightful chapters provides our churches with what they need to apply traditional wisdom to discernment. Such discernment could then be offered to the wider world on behalf of the common good.”
“From March 2020 to June 2023 a group of twenty international scholars were invited to meet regularly and map out the promises and challenges of AI. They produced an astonishing text, worthy of course adoption for any Christian ethical investigation into AI. Divided into one part anthropology (who are we, what is AI, and how are we now related?) and one part ethics, (what are the pitfalls, promises, and social concerns?), the book is engaging, well-designed, and perfect for faculty looking for a foundational text.”
“This wonderful book is truly an ‘encounter’ with AI in the best sense: a deep, fair, nuanced, yet highly practical collective exploration by pioneering technologists, ethicists, and theologians of how our engagement with AI helps us answer fundamental questions about who we are and how to flourish in a world ever more integrated with technology.”
“This critically important book presents a comprehensive dialogue between Catholic ethics and technological advances in artificial intelligence that is at once cautionary and hopeful about the future. The volume stands as a testament that witnesses to why the humanities and the sciences desperately need one another as we work to secure the common good.”
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