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  1. Professor shares insights on ND and the church’s role in conversations of AI and dignity

    October 28, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, is one of three laypeople who were appointed to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Task Force on Preserving Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

    In an interview with The Observer, Sullivan explained this task force is a byproduct of Pope Leo XIV’s first papal encyclical published earlier this year titled “Magnifica humanitas.”

  2. To make AI morally good, tech companies turn to religion. Some say it's not so simple

    October 25, 2026

    That’s not to say these meetings have lacked diverse representation. Nor does it suggest that their engagement with religion hasn’t been thoughtful from the perspective of those in attendance, like Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher of religion who leads an initiative on ethics and AI at the University of Notre Dame.

  3. Do machines have feelings? AI has philosophers and tech leaders rethinking consciousness

    October 24, 2026

    Anthropic has sought out the opinions of religious leaders on the topic of AI consciousness, hosting a series of private meetings earlier this year. Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, participated in one of these meetings and left “skeptical that an artificial agent could attain actual moral virtue,” she wrote in a Substack post.

  4. U.S. bishops name members of AI task force formed in response to encyclical

    October 19, 2026

    Three academics will serve as consultants to the task force. They include Charles Camosy, professor of moral theology and ethics at The Catholic University of America; Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University; and Meghan Sullivan, professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and Ethics Initiative at the University of Notre Dame.

  5. From the President: Keeping human dignity in focus

    October 12, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. Since 2016, she has taught a course called “God and the Good Life,” and has co-written a book, “The Good Life Method,” based on the course.

  6. AI Has a God Problem Stretching From the Vatican to the Baptist Pulpit

    October 11, 2026

    “A lot of pastors are realizing when people get freaked out about institutions they depend on, they try to find their voice to advocate for themselves and their communities. And churches are really good at giving people a vehicle for advocating for their vision of the common good in broader society, especially in parts of the country like where I live in the Midwest,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame.

  7. Why Philosophers Are Worried About AI

    October 03, 2026

    University of Notre Dame philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan takes that question beyond the classroom, examining the ethical responsibility of the companies building AI and the role individuals have in deciding how the technology enters their everyday lives.

  8. CEO Gap Stalls AI Adoption As IBM Finds Only 25% Of Workers Use It

    September 29, 2026

    A new white paper from All Tech is Human and the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics lab, Two Views of the Same Transformation, heard the same story from below. Mid-level professionals said checking AI output is a growing, unrecognized share of their work, and some called it “babysitting AI slop.” The glue work of a rollout is missing from performance reviews, and women reported carrying more of it. Executives, meanwhile, described middle management as a layer to cut, then worried about “distributed deskilling.”

  9. 'We all have a voice' on AI, says head of US bishops' new task force

    September 18, 2026

    Megan Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame (professor of philosophy and founding director of the Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good) has offered to provide a menu of formation opportunities for bishops and for dioceses. We want to have a set of experts available and resources for both bishops and dioceses.

  10. ND conference to explore ethics, human formation around AI

    September 17, 2026

    From Meghan Sullivan: “So I think the call for some sensible oversight of a major technological revolution is widely shared. The million dollar question is how to do it. And that’s where I think a lot of us right now are feeling a little bit at sea because this is moving so quickly and the technology is so new that trying to figure out what a safe regulation of it would look like is pretty tricky.”

  11. The Questions ChatGPT Can’t Answer

    September 03, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a Catholic philosopher at the University of Notre Dame who often meets with AI leaders and developers, said many workers in the industry “talk very flippantly” about job displacement and AI being able to do work faster and cheaper. Some are trying to transcend work and get to a place where they devote all their time to family and hobbies, like gardening and crafts. 

  12. AI in the Catholic classroom: As a new school year starts, what role does it play?

    August 29, 2026

    AI awareness has been evolving, according to Lily Abadal, a partner at Catholic school consultants Partners in Mission, a professor at the University of South Florida and faculty fellow with a project at the University of Notre Dame called DELTA — Human Formation in the Age of AI.

  13. Everyday Holiness Podcast: Prof. Meghan Sullivan

    August 27, 2026

    Prof. Meghan Sullivan shares the ways God has guided important moments in her life, including teaching philosophy at Notre Dame, creating the God and the Good Life course, and serving as a key leader in the conversation about faith and artificial intelligence.

  14. As students embrace AI, universities scramble to keep up

    August 22, 2026

    “With each passing day a machine becomes capable — or seemingly capable — of doing something that until yesterday you and I thought only a human being could ever do,” said Adam Kronk, an ethicist at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. “What does it mean to be a human being? What does human flourishing look like? Why am I here? Why am I in school? It makes these questions much more acute and felt.”

  15. Notre Dame professor with focus on AI is 'guardedly optimistic' about it

    August 21, 2026

    Today, Sullivan remains "guardedly optimistic" about what AI will mean down the road on campus, for churches and for the world. Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good has brought in over $60 million in grants in recent months to support research and projects focused on supporting ethics and humanistic concerns. Some of that funding helped create the DELTA framework and a website full of useful resources.

  16. "What AI Will Never Have" with Dr. Meghan Sullivan

    August 20, 2026

    Philosopher Meghan Sullivan, the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and director of the university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, joins Chris and Eddie for a conversation that starts with Socrates and ends up in a conference room at an AI company. Meghan traces her own path from an intentionally obscure grad-school dissertation on the nature of time to teaching "God and the Good Life," one of Notre Dame's most popular courses. From there the conversation turns to her current work on AI and human dignity, built around a framework she calls DELTA — Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence, Agency.

  17. When Catholic higher education meets A.I.: We can’t let new technology override moral wisdom

    August 13, 2026

    From University President Fr. Bob Dowd: "In a world with A.I., the humanities, which have always been at the core of Catholic higher education, have never been more important. All academic disciplines, from finance to biology to chemical engineering, develop important capacities for analysis and understanding, and they play critical roles in advancing human knowledge. At the same time, it is essential to study the humanities—philosophy, theology, literature, history and the arts—for the rich wisdom they offer on the most fundamental questions: what it means to be human, why there is suffering in the world and how to pursue truth."

  18. Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and Moral Agency’

    July 30, 2026

    “Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education right now is just getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are really shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study going forward, and a lot of the formation work that we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at Notre Dame.

  19. Pastors Using AI to Help Write Sermons Grapple With Where to Draw the Line

    July 19, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame professor of philosophy who is leading a research project on AI and religion, said that using AI to draft anything spoken in worship reflects a basic misunderstanding of what Christians believe is happening when a preacher delivers a homily.

  20. Us vs. the Robots

    June 30, 2026

    From Meghan Sullivan: "When Pope Leo XIV took office last year, he indicated that he would devote substantial attention to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. In this regard, his choice of a papal name was no accident: he specifically referenced Pope Leo XIII, who in 1891 wrote an encyclical, Rerum novarum, that offered thoughts on how to rein in the most dehumanizing aspects of the Industrial Revolution. With Magnifica humanitas, Leo has delivered on that promise and then some. The hard work now begins to ensure that his teaching reaches its intended audience."