With each passing day, we learn of new and astonishing applications of artificial intelligence. It can write our e-mails, summarize our conversations, find us the best recipes, drive our cars and build our airplanes. Television commercials tout the consoling and inspirational personal and lifestyle advice available on ChatGPT. As with every technological advance, we neglect the moral implications of these developments at our peril.

In January of last year, the Dicastery for the doctrine of the faith issued a document entitled Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence. The faithful are reminded that “Human intelligence is ultimately God’s gift fashioned for the assimilation of truth” and that “...human intelligence… cannot be reduced to the mere acquisition of facts or the ability to perform specific tasks. Instead, it involves the person’s openness to the ultimate questions of life and reflects an orientation toward the True and the Good.”

Professor Eric Jenislawski is an Associate Professor of Theology at Christendom College where he teaches courses on Sacred Scripture and historical theology. He is a contributor to the Institute of Catholic Culture, the author of TAN Books’ online course on the philosophical sources of modernism and the creator of a series of online lectures for Christendom College on artificial intelligence. He will speak about the ways in which AI “thought” differs from human thought, the difficulties of programming AI to understand and conform to genuine human values, the real threat of loss of cognitive skills through the use of AI and other ethical challenges of this unprecedented technology.

CCI Luncheon - Artificial Intelligence - 13 March 2026

By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

CCI Luncheon - Artificial Intelligence - 13 March 2026