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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced earlier this month the creation of a Task Force on Preserving Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, in response to Pope Leo XIV’s repeated calls for a responsible approach to the rapidly developing field of AI.

Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Jose, whose diocese includes the Silicon Valley region, was named head of the new task force.

Bishop Cantu spoke with The Pillar about the new task force, its goals, and how he approaches the question of boundaries for AI use within the Church.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Jose. Courtesy photo.

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Your Excellency, what do you see as the goals for the bishops’ new task force on AI?

There are three areas the task force will be working in. One is to maintain dialogue with the AI labs. We’ve already started that, and we want to maintain those relationships to get to know each other on a personal level, but also to listen to the developers of the machines, to listen to what their hopes are with the technology, but also their

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