From Radio to AI: The Catholic Church in a Technological Age
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The Catholic Church has always had to find its footing amid changing media and new technologies. But what does that history tell us about how the Church approaches artificial intelligence today?
In the public lecture of the UCSIA Summer School, Alessandra Vitullo — researcher and lecturer in sociology of communication at Sapienza University of Rome — traces more than a century of Catholic engagement with technology, from the arrival of radio to today's digital platforms and AI systems. Rather than swinging between enthusiasm and rejection, the Church has historically sought to balance openness to innovation with attention to its ethical, social, and spiritual implications.
Professor Vitullo will explore how this tradition shapes the emerging vision of Pope Leo XIV as articulated in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which places artificial intelligence at the heart of contemporary ethical reflection.
Free and open to all, in English. Don't forget to register.
In the public lecture of the UCSIA Summer School, Alessandra Vitullo — researcher and lecturer in sociology of communication at Sapienza University of Rome — traces more than a century of Catholic engagement with technology, from the arrival of radio to today's digital platforms and AI systems. Rather than swinging between enthusiasm and rejection, the Church has historically sought to balance openness to innovation with attention to its ethical, social, and spiritual implications.
Professor Vitullo will explore how this tradition shapes the emerging vision of Pope Leo XIV as articulated in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which places artificial intelligence at the heart of contemporary ethical reflection.
Free and open to all, in English. Don't forget to register.
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