Signaling the Vatican’s growing engagement in efforts to ensure the ethical development of new technologies, the Vatican has announced that “Artificial Intelligence and Peace” will be the theme for the next World Day of Peace.

Birth and death bookend our temporal experience, but we are called to fill everything between them with love and mercy and decency, not cling to fantasies of a fraudulent eternity.

Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.

Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.

Cybersecurity at Catholic parishes is less robust than it could be, but several free and low-cost resources can bolster defenses.

What is the Catholic Church’s approach to technology, and what do A.I. and ChatGPT have in store for it?