The Question of AI During the Papacy of Pope Francis

A Philosophical and Theological Analysis

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ID20249507
AuthorsJustin Nnaemeka Onyeukaziri (0000-0002-5281-2487, Fu Jen Catholic University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume16
Issue11
Pages1379
Publication date2025-10-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel16111379
OpenAlexW4415673012
LanguageEN
References cited5

The papacy of Pope Francis, like other previous papacies, addressed several contemporary global issues, of which the questions of climate change, global poverty, war, and artificial intelligence (AI) were given recurrent emphasis. There were four elaborate documents dedicated to the question of AI design and development with respect to their ethical, philosophical, theological, and socio-political implications. The aim of this study is to philosophically analyze the philosophical and theological intuitions that underpin the urgency and the cogency that inform the pontification over the subject matter, AI. Additionally, it aims to examine the exhaustiveness and cohesiveness of the scientific and technological epistemological foundations that ground the argumentations of the documents and theoretical unification that underpins Pope Francis’s ecclesiology of AI. This will help to evaluate its contribution to the ongoing discourse on AI ethics and governance and expound the humanistic imagination on the reality of the co-existence of humans and AI as cognitive systems

Cognition · Ecclesiology · German · Humanism · Unification · Interdisciplinary Studies: Technology, Society, and Humanities · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies

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