Facing a 'Pivotal Choice'
By Randall Smith
At Mass the other day, the priest said, "Today, we face a pivotal choice." He was referring to the challenges of artificial intelligence. AI presents a challenge, but it's important to understand that the challenges we face and the pivotal choices we must make are the ones mankind has faced repeatedly – ever since the beginning.
It is often said that we are in a "new age" where "everything has changed." This is a tendency exacerbated by the way remarks in the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Modern World (Gaudium et spes) have been interpreted by some. In…
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