As Facebook, Apple and Google pour billions into artificial intelligence, ethicists and moral philosophers are racing to keep up, and Catholic thinkers are looking ahead to the possible harms to humanity.

It is not simply children whom we seek to design but our own selves.

The protection of human life is paramount in Catholic teaching, and it is the greatest argument for autonomous driving technology.

The blue flight suit bears the pope's name, a pair of angel wings, and a short white cape.

The pope’s message in Davos was one of a spate of recent Catholic discussions of a technology that is rapidly making its way into our everyday lives, in virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, the phones in our pockets and, soon enough, in self-driving cars.

Many described technology as something of a necessary evil.