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Fr. Peter George Flynn introduces Quo Vadis Humanitas, the International Theological Commission’s recent document on artificial intelligence, taking the title from St. Peter’s traditional encounter with the Lord on the road to Rome. The first half considers what AI cannot replicate: human intelligence is embodied, formed gradually through the senses, and irreducibly personal — unlike the instant knowing of angels.

The document warns that AI risks narrowing what counts as knowledge, sidelining philosophy, theology and ethics as “subjective,” while delegating calculation, reasoning and translation in ways that quietly atrophy our own capacities. The second half reads a striking passage on the body: the tendency to treat it as an object to be enhanced and remodelled at will, chasing a borrowed identity, desiring a perfect body while despising the real one. Fr. Peter applies this wryly and pastorally — including a pointed aside about cosmetic tourism — before closing with St. Francis’s “brother ass” and the Christian vision of accepting and sanctifying the body we have been given.

L'articolo Catechesis – Vatican on AI: Quo Vadis Humanitas – Fr Peter George Flynn OFM proviene da Radio Maria.