The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations

Rick Stevens, Matthew Elmore, Jeffrey P. Bishop, and Stephen C. Meredith on January 30, 2025 at the University of Chicago. Artificial intelligence is increasingly interfacing with all aspects of human life, raising particular ethical challenges in medicine and biotechnology. The ethical challenges of AI must be grounded in the limits of the discipline it is applied to. Medicine has seen amazing advances in the last few decades, but these advances also raise questions about limits, especially in living patients. We must ask: What are the limits of medicine and biotech – and how does this translate into limits on the use of AI in these fields? This public panel will serve to explore what the limits in medicine and biotech are and what role the wisdom of the Christian tradition can play in forming them. --- This project was made possible through the support of "In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide" (Grant 62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. This event was co-sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago and the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. The opinions expressed in this publication ​are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John ​Templeton Foundation.