{"id":118379,"date":"2025-08-07T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/?post_type=story&#038;p=118379"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:56:51","slug":"faith-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence-with-brian-p-green","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/faith-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence-with-brian-p-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence with Brian P. Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118380 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Green-podcast-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Green-podcast-twitter.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Green-podcast-twitter-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Green-podcast-twitter-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>The Saturday after Pope Leo XIV was elected, he gave an address to cardinals in which he described his reasoning for selecting the name Leo.<\/p>\n<p>He said there were different reasons for his choice, \u201cbut mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution,\u201d Pope Leo XIV said. \u201cIn our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, most potently visible through large language models like ChatGPT, was the driving force behind Pope Leo\u2019s name choice. In the early days of his pontificate, he is suggesting that the Church has a key role to play in discussions about artificial intelligence \u2013 including its use, its regulation, and its effect on societies and individual human beings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2140364166&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jesuitconference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Faith, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence with Brian P. Green\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jesuitconference\/faith-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence-with-brian-p-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faith, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence with Brian P. Green<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Our guest today is one of the world\u2019s foremost experts on technology ethics and has served on a Vatican AI research group that is gathering scholars from multiple disciplines to engage issues around artificial intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/ethics\/about-the-center\/people\/brian-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Patrick Green<\/a> is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and teaches AI ethics and space ethics in Santa Clara University\u2019s Graduate School of Engineering. With a background in both technology and Catholic moral theology, Brian is perfectly positioned to help the church think through the potential benefits and risks of AI and what our own spiritual and ethical traditions might have to offer the societal conversation at large.<\/p>\n<p>Host Mike Jordan Laskey asked him to talk about his work and how the Vatican is approaching the complex constellation of issues surrounding artificial intelligence. They also talked about how a Catholic might think about whether or not to use AI tools and how to use them. Mike loved how clearly and compellingly Brian talked about all this thorny stuff. As AI developments are changing every day, we feel like we\u2019ll be calling Brian back before too long to hear his updated perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>For more, check out the Vatican AI research group\u2019s book that Brian contributed to, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Encountering-Artificial-Intelligence-Anthropological-Investigations\/dp\/B0CYK7C66L\">Encountering Artificial Intelligence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AMDG is a production of the Jesuit Media Lab, which is a project of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of the AMDG podcast, Brian Green discusses how the Vatican is approaching the complex issues surrounding AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":118380,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"type-tag":[2533,1331,2534],"type-featured":[],"type-media":[],"type-category":[2372],"topic":[1269],"class_list":["post-118379","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-tag-ai","type-tag-amdg-podcast","type-tag-artificial-intelligence","type-category-podcast","topic-education","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Faith, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence with Brian P. 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