The Human Person
in the Age of AI
Truth, dignity, Catholic identity, and school culture in a rapidly changing world...
Artificial intelligence is already changing the way students learn, teachers teach, leaders lead, and families utilize information.
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Ethical AI
Pope Leo IVX: "It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence. In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate language, behavior and analytical skills, or even simulate empathy and understanding, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. Even when these tools are described as capable of “learning,” their way of doing so is different from that of a human person. It is not the experience of those who allow themselves to be shaped by life and grow over time through choices, mistakes, forgiveness and fidelity. Rather, it is a form of statistical adaptation based on data and feedback, which can be very effective, but does not imply inner growth."
Defending Education: AI is rapidly entering every industry and will soon be integrated into most K-12 and college curricula through lesson planning, student research help, and personalized feedback. Colleges and universities are moving first to embed DEI ideology into AI tools so that, once schools adopt those tools, DEI becomes institutionalized in classrooms. They often frame this as fighting “algorithmic bias,” claiming systems built by white or Asian men will produce biased answers. In practice, the stated aim of most AI systems is accuracy and truth rather than identity-based outputs. Defending Education compiled a non-comprehensive list of notable institutions using their platforms to make DEI a core part of AI before widespread school adoption. The concern is that students would then receive politicized rather than neutral educational content. Read about this in depth HERE.
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