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Persons, Not Patterns: Catholic Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence

Student Workbook · Higher Ed

Persons, Not Patterns: Catholic Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence

A FaithBytes Seminar Workbook on Imago Dei

This seminar workbook invites you into a sustained inquiry: what is the human person, and what follows for the technologies we are building? The question is no longer academic. Systems now generate language, images, and decisions at scale; they mediate work, relationship, and self-understanding; and they carry, often invisibly, a philosophy of the person. Engineers, policymakers, educators, and ordinary users are all doing anthropology, whether they know it or not.

Strand
Imago Dei
Created in God's Image
Grade band
Higher Ed
Higher Education (undergraduate and adult formation)

Five lessons · substrand alignment

  1. A

    Two Anthropologies: The Person in Catholic Thought and in the Technological Imagination

    Loved & Created by God

  2. B

    Identity, Agency, and the Sacramental Body

    Human vs. Machine

  3. C

    Structures of Dignity and Structures of Sin: Digital Spaces, Workplaces, and Industries

    Respect for Human Dignity

  4. D

    Contributing to the Dialogue: Personhood, AI, and the Sacramental Meaning of Creation

    Ethical Reflection on Technology

  5. E

    Advocacy in Action: Policies and Practices for Human Dignity

    Advocacy & Witness

Big questions

  • What does it mean to be human in the age of machine learning, and how do Catholic and technological anthropologies differ?
  • How is the soul, and the embodied, free, relational person, distinct from artificial intelligence?
  • How can Catholic anthropology guide the evaluation and design of technologies so that they uphold human dignity?

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