This is the Art of Catholic.

Welcome to the Art of Catholic Podcast.

I'm Matthew Leonard and listen, talk about artificial intelligence is everywhere.

Everybody and their brother are playing around with AI platforms like ChatGPT.

Companies are scrambling to see how best to integrate.

As students are licking their jobs at the possibilities of not having to write term

papers anymore, I even once asked that to write a country song and it did a fairly decent

job.

You know, the dog was in it, the truck and all the rest.

But there are some serious and perhaps troubling questions that continue to swirl around

the breathtakingly fast growth of AI to the point where industry icons at one point

We're calling for a moratorium on growth until some questions could be answered. So for our purposes, how is a Catholic supposed to respond to this technology or technology in general for that matter?

I mean, is it contrary to our understanding of the human person? Does it devalue human creativity?

Is this the beginning of the AI takeover of all humanity?

So these and other questions surround the issue.

And so in order to address it all,

I invited a very good friend of mine,

Dr. Dan Kebler, to come on the out of Catholic

and help us to answer some of these questions.

And here's the tale of tape on Dan.

He is a professor of biology at Franciscan University

of Stubanville.

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