Digital Age
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Inside the Vatican-Anthropic alliance on AI ethics
Anthropic’s outreach to Catholic voices began with an email introducing an atheist tech founder to a moral theologian. What followed were months of deepening conversations about how centuries of religious wisdom might help shape the behavior of an artificial intelligence model.
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Questions about AI are really religious questions
Every new technology carries an implicit vision of what it means to be human. That makes the deepest questions about AI fundamentally religious ones – even if much of the developed world would prefer the Church stayed silent on matters of profit and progress.
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The machine has no judgment — and that matters
Artificial intelligence is not truly intelligent. It lacks the synthetic, creative capacity of the human mind, relying instead on pattern-matching algorithms that remain subject to the oldest computing problem: flawed inputs produce flawed outputs, no matter how sophisticated the system.
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The future of Church is hybrid: local digital strategy needed
The “Silver Surfer” is becoming a primary demographic for church digital communication. With 90 percent of seniors online, parishes must shift their strategies away from traditional print to well-curated digital platforms to reach their most active members.
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From TikTok to the baptism font
Faith communities are engaging digital culture rather than retreating from it. Conversion stories on YouTube and TikTok, alongside a growing Vatican online presence, are sparking real curiosity that leads people from screens to parishes and into sacramental preparation.
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