Join us for a special workshop, Agency and Education in the Age of AI: New Works by a Vatican AI Research Group. The event will take place on Thursday, June 11 at 2:30 pm in the Notre Dame Washington Office (1201 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington D.C.)
AI agents are exploding in workplaces while schools and universities are struggling to discern how to respond to the social transformations introduced by AI. These developments are raising fundamental questions about the human person: What distinguishes human agency and what is its role in the world of AI? How do we educate people to live well in this new world? These are questions that religious traditions are especially well-poised to answer.
Featuring Bishop Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, and members of the AI Research Group of the Vatican’s Centre for Digital Culture, this series of panel conversations will discuss the findings of two new books on these questions from the perspective of the Catholic tradition.
Workshop Schedule:
2:30-2:45 pm Introduction and Welcome
Bishop Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
2:45-3:45 pm Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AI
Brian Patrick Green, Santa Clara University
Noreen Herzfeld, St. John’s School of Theology
Paul Scherz, University of Notre Dame
Charlie Camosy (moderator), The Catholic University of America
3:45-4:00 pm Coffee/Break
4:00-5:00 pm Educating in the Age of AI
Catherine Moon, Villanova University
Taylor Nutter, Mt. St. Mary’s University
Luis Vera, Mt. St. Mary’s University
Brandon Vaidyanathan (moderator), The Catholic University of America
5:00 pm Reception
Click here to register for the workshop.
This event is sponsored by the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab.