AI and the Pope: A Case Study in Catholic Social Teaching

Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum (reh-rum no-va-rum), Pope Leo the 14th released his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’Father Michael Baggot, Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Pon-ti-fi-cal Athen-nee-um Regeena A-posto-lorum) and P. Bracy Bersnak, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College joined us for this timely and important conversion on AI and the Pope.Support the show