In Pope Leo’s message to the Second Annual Rome Conference on Artificial Intelligence in June of last year, he stated:
“AI, especially Generative AI, has opened new horizons on many different levels, including enhancing research in healthcare and scientific discovery, but also raises troubling questions on its possible repercussions on humanity’s openness to truth and beauty, on our distinctive ability to grasp and process reality.”
The future of the human race is undoubtedly closely tied to artificial intelligence and the digital world. For the Christian, our duty is not to remove ourselves from culture, but to evangelize it, to bring the Good News to new frontiers wherever people gather.
Two brothers from Potomac, Maryland, Peter and Thomas Cooney, recognized a need for Catholics to be empowered with an AI tool that would serve them in this new age without providing information that contradicts the truth as understood in the Catholic tradition.
Peter, a junior economics student at the University of Dallas, and Thomas, a freshman computer science student at Baylor University, are building Acutis– “a Moral AI rooted in Catholic doctrine” in the off-hours between classes, regular reception of the sacraments, and the ordinary responsibilities
