WOF 264: The Monsters of Social Media

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Listen as Fr. Steve Grunow, CEO of Word on Fire, speaks to a group of young Jesuits about the perils of artificial intelligence and the online world.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior content director at Word on Fire.
0:11.9	We hope you've had a wonderful start to the Christmas season and to add to that delight,
0:16.8	we'd like to share with you a talk recently given by our own CEO, Father Steve Gruno.
0:23.3	Many of you know Father Steve through the daily masses that we streamed at the beginning of
0:28.3	the coronavirus period. You've heard his magnificent and prophetic homilies. Well, you'll get a
0:33.7	little bit more of that today in this talk. The talk is titled The Monsters of Social Media.
0:39.9	The Monsters of Social Media. And it's all about the disturbing artificial intelligence that we've
0:45.6	created to power a lot of our social media tools without maybe thinking through a lot of their
0:51.2	long-term implications. This talk in many ways piggybacks on the discussion that we had with Bishop
0:57.3	Aaron last week on the new Netflix documentary The Social Delima. And I think it adds even more
1:02.5	insight into this important and growing issue. The talk was given at the behest of some young Jesuits
1:09.2	who asked Father Steve to come and deliver a talk on the world of social media. So this is the one
1:14.6	he chose to give. The Monsters of Social Media. The talk is followed by a short Q&A where some of the
1:20.1	young Jesuits got to ask Father Steve's opinion on a wide range of subjects. So enjoy this talk by
1:26.8	our CEO, Father Steve Gruno. And we'll see you next week for another great discussion with Bishop
1:32.4	Aaron. Enjoy.
1:39.7	My name is Father Steve Gruno and I'm a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. I serve as CEO and
1:45.7	executive producer for Bishop Aaron's Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, which is a multimedia
1:51.0	postulate that seeks to fulfill the Lord Jesus' missionary mandate to preach the gospel to the nations.
1:57.6	Word on Fire places a particular emphasis on modern and contemporary forms of media and styles
2:03.2	of communication. And the purpose of that is to introduce people to Christ and to extend to them
2:08.8	an invitation to have a relationship with Christ by sharing communion with him in his church.
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