Artificial Intelligence (AI): Help or Mark of the Beast?
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Few things have changed the world more in the last two years than AI. But what does the Church say about it? Is is good and helpful, or dangerous and demonic? Can it be used without opening portals? Fr. Chris Alar explains.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Father Chris Ayler here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:04.2 | On a beautiful day, we're coming to you live. And finally, I've had a chance to now do the talk on artificial intelligence AI. |
| 0:14.4 | And so we're grateful that you could join us. And thank you for all of your patience. |
| 0:18.8 | I had one person right. and say father you've been |
| 0:21.1 | saying you would do this for over a year. Well it's not been that long but it has been a while so we're |
| 0:26.9 | grateful that you could join us today and now let us begin with a prayer in the name of the father and of the |
| 0:33.0 | son and of the holy spirit amen. Heavenly father we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us. |
| 0:40.6 | We ask for his protection in all things, technical, technology, and all the electronics |
| 0:46.4 | and the us of the tools you give us to spread your word of mercy. We ask that you keep the |
| 0:53.1 | evil one at bay, as his domain includes control over such |
| 0:58.0 | things as technology, that you will keep us free from his tyranny, and that you will keep us, |
| 1:04.2 | Mother Mary, guided, blessed, and protected. And we ask all this through Christ, our Lord, amen amen in the name of the father and of the son |
| 1:13.6 | and of the Holy Spirit amen well again we are grateful now it's funny because I always tell you today |
| 1:20.7 | I'm going to take you back to seminary and I'm going to share with you my same very noticeable I can't do |
| 1:25.6 | that today this is the first time you're going to hear me, I'm not taking you back to seminary because I never learned |
| 1:31.7 | about artificial intelligence in seminary. In fact, pull out your Bibles. Where is artificial |
| 1:39.7 | intelligence? If it's not in the Bible, we're told as Catholics, you can't discuss it, |
| 1:44.9 | you can't think about it, you can't even get into it. This is false. This is why we have a |
| 1:51.8 | magisterium, because the church, and this is what the point of this talk today is going to be, |
| 1:57.1 | has said a lot about artificial intelligence. And in fact, I'm blown away. I've been doing a lot of |
| 2:03.6 | research over this past week how much Pope Francis has said on this topic. And I think it's very |
| 2:10.6 | well said, actually, in terms of the warnings, but yet the potential. And he does a good job of laying out both. So we're going to, |
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