Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence > Status Update

The quality of a civilization is measured not by the power of its means, but by the care it is able to offer, by its ability to recognize the other as a face not merely as a function. (75)

Technological innovations, including artificial intelligence, are not neutral, for they can either foster participation and justice or exacerbate inequality, control and exclusion. For this reason, they must be evaluated by asking a crucial question: Do they truly help individuals and peoples to become more humane and fraternal, while respecting our common home and future generations? (75)

"...justice is born from, and fulfilled in, fraternity, because the way we approach and relate to the least among us becomes, in concrete terms, the measure of our relationship with God and with our brothers and sisters."

"Understanding that the truth is a gift to be shared, not a possession to be monopolized, frees the church from the temptation of seeking forms of presence of power."