Magnifica Humanitas: AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s New Encyclical

Welcome to the Public Dialogue on “Magnifica Humanitas: AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s New Encyclical.”

The livestream will begin at 3:00 pm EDT. We’re pleased to have the following leaders joining us:
—Archbishop Paul Coakley is the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
—Emilce Cuda is an Argentinian theologian and secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America at the Holy See, where she worked closely with Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, and was an advisor to Pope Francis.
—Daniel Daly is the founding executive director of the Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health, sponsored by the Catholic Health Association. He is the co-host of the podcast Ethics on Call, which has explored the intersection of AI, human dignity, and Catholic teaching.
—Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and is the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, where she leads the DELTA Network, a major effort to develop a shared, faith-based ethical framework for scholars, religious leaders, tech leaders, and others to discern appropriate uses of artificial intelligence.
—Bishop Paul Tighe is the secretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and a leading Vatican expert on AI. He has participated in the Rome Call for AI Ethics and the Minerva Dialogues. He is the former secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
—Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, will moderate the conversation.

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