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  1. Notre Dame hosts summit exploring role of faith, humanity in age of AI

    September 26, 2025

    In the summit's keynote speech on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, said DELTA is a faith-based framework for approaching AI.  Sullivan said AI is revolutionizing how people view ethics — in a way similar to how the atomic bomb presented hard ethical questions during World War II. But unlike the atomic age, she said, Christians haven't been involved in conversations about digitalization and the advent of AI.

  2. Notre Dame summit aims to bring Christian values to AI revolution

    September 24, 2025

    As artificial intelligence evolves at lightning speed, the University of Notre Dame has convened a summit to bring Catholic and Christian values to bear on AI technology. The university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and its Ethics Initiative teamed up to host the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing on the Notre Dame campus from Sept. 22 to 25.

  3. University launches ethical framework for AI use at summit: The DELTA framework for AI use was announced at the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing Tuesday

    September 24, 2025

    University leaders, business executives, academics, journalists and other prominent individuals have gathered on campus this week for the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing, hosted by the University’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative.

    The summit plans to discuss the role ethics can play in society’s adaptation to the rise of generative AI, with a particular emphasis on Catholic virtue. From Monday through Thursday, attendees will reexamine the role of Catholic voices in navigating the ways generative AI is transforming human life through a series of lectures and discussion sessions.

  4. Notre Dame's A.I. Summit focuses on ethical use of developing technology in the workforce

    September 24, 2025

    SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Tech leaders from around the country have been spending the week at Notre Dame.

    Their talks centered around the future of A.I. and specifically the ethical use of this technology in all areas of life.

    The university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good is asking tough philosophical questions around how we use A.I. as a partner in industry without diminishing the value of human labor.

    For the sake of developing workplace policy, Notre Dame hosts leaders like Google and YouTube to engage a new ethical framework called DELTA.

  5. Notre Dame summit aims to bring Christian values to AI revolution

    September 24, 2025

    The university’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and its Ethics Initiative teamed up to host the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing on the Notre Dame campus from Sept. 22 to 25. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., opened the summit with a Sept. 22 Mass at which he was the principal celebrant and homilist, with university president Father Robert Dowd, a Holy Cross priest, concelebrating.

    During her Sept. 23 keynote address, Meghan Sullivan — professor of philosophy and director of both the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative — said that “discernment is required … more than ever” with the acceleration of AI in an era of “technological triumphalism.”

  6. Notre Dame hosts summit on AI, faith, and human flourishing, launches DELTA framework

    September 22, 2025

    Notre Dame University is bringing together ethicists, technologists, faith leaders, and policymakers this week to explore the ethical and spiritual implications of artificial intelligence at the Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing. The event runs Monday, Sept. 22, through Thursday, Sept. 25, on the University’s campus.

    The summit, hosted by the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, includes workshops, panels, and discussions with leaders from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and other organizations.

    A centerpiece of the summit is the launch of DELTA, a new framework for guiding conversations about AI. DELTA, which stands for Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence, and Agency, is designed to help people across sectors, from schools to workplaces, navigate the ethical and human implications of AI.

  7. Notre Dame hosting summit on AI, keynote speech livestreamed to public on Sept. 23

    September 19, 2025

    The University of Notre Dame is hosting a summit exploring the impact artificial intelligence could have on everything from education to human relationships, with a keynote speech livestream open to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

    Presented by the Insitute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Initiative, the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing runs Sept. 22-25 and "will draw together a dynamic, ecumenical group of educators, faith leaders, technologists, journalists, policymakers and young people who believe in the enduring relevance of Christian ethical thought in a world of powerful AI," according to the event's webpage.

  8. To Fix Our Immigration System, Promote the "Right to Stay"

    July 23, 2025

    Author Antônio Lemos was a 2024-25 Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow with ECG.

    As Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate, many people expect him to continue Pope Francis’ focus on migrants’ rights, a cause he has already promoted in several public statements. In fact, even his choice of name—Leo—appears to signal a deeper commitment to this issue. His namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was the first pope to promote part of migrants’ rights that is often over-looked: the right not to migrate.

  9. BigThink: The Three Laws of Love and How to Follow Them

    June 01, 2025

    Aristotle thought that a friend you love is considered your ‘second-self’, someone whose pain feels like your own. Philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks What happens when you extend that kind of love to strangers?

  10. Trump’s economists should study what happened in Japan and South Korea

    May 29, 2025

    Yong Suk Lee, ECG Program Chair for Technology Ethics, points out in his op-ed in The Hill that the Trump administration’s economic strategy—achieving trade surpluses and deploying tariffs and non-tariff barriers to protect domestic industries and promote growth—is reminiscent of the strategies that Japan and South Korea pursued during their periods of rapid economic growth in the mid-20th century. 

  11. Templeton Ideas Podcast: Running the Good Race with Meghan Sullivan

    February 13, 2025

    Tom Burnett interviews Meghan Sullivan for the Templeton Ideas podcast,  produced by the John Templeton Foundation, and covers the enduring relevance of philosophy in our daily lives, cultivating the good life, and the importance of prioritizing virtues—including humility, courage, and love.

  12. Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today

    February 10, 2025

    ECG Director Meghan Sullivan discusses splagchnizomai—"gut-wrenching love"—and our sometimes astonishing capacity to feel connected to others.

  13. Cato Institute Brief: Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes

    January 29, 2025

    This research brief from the Cato Institute by Yong Suk Lee, Toshiaki Iizuka, and Karen Eggleston focuses on the way in which robot adoption was positively associated with employment and quality of care in Japanese nursing homes.

  14. Robots in nursing homes help improve staff retention, patient care

    January 09, 2025

    A new study from Yong Suk Lee, ECG's program chair in technology ethics and an expert on the future of work, finds that robot use is associated with increased employment and employee retention, improved productivity and a higher quality of care. The research has important implications for the workplace and the long-term care industry.

  15. ND–IBM Tech Ethics Lab graduate fellow Perla Khattar publishes new work

    November 19, 2024

    ND-IBM Technology Ethics Lab graduate fellow Perla Khattar recently published new work in Tech Policy Press. The article, titled "Neural Data and Consumer Privacy: California’s New Frontier in Data Protection and Neurorights," assesses the potential impact of California's recent amendment to its Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) classifying neural data as sensitive personal information. 

  16. Notre Dame lands grant to create faith-based ethical framework for AI

    October 14, 2024

    The University of Notre Dame has been awarded a $539,000 grant from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. to help create a faith-based ethical framework for applications of artificial intelligence.

    The university aims to establish a network of scholars, technology industry experts and faith leaders to study the implications of the rapid rise of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and disseminate faith-based ethical frameworks in its use, Notre Dame said. The one-year project will include identifying key participants, holding focus groups to determine priorities, and laying the groundwork for next steps.

  17. Notre Dame to explore faith-based ethical uses of AI

    October 11, 2024

    NEW YORK – About five months after Pope Francis spoke of the responsibility political leaders have to ensure that artificial intelligence is used ethically, the University of Notre Dame has announced that it will develop faith-based frameworks for ethical uses of the technology.

  18. Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker

    June 11, 2024

    What does it mean to live a good life? How do we find meaning and happiness in our everyday lives? In this episode of Reimagining the Good Life, podcaster and author Amy Julia Becker sits down with Meghan Sullivan, co-author of The Good Life Method and philosophy professor at Notre Dame, to explore:

  19. Learn Your Stripes: Studying Thom Browne at Notre Dame

    April 12, 2023

    “When you’re here, you feel that you’re in such a safe, enclosed environment,” says the designer and CFDA chairman Thom Browne over a bowl of honey-blended yogurt and granola, his gray knit vest catching and softening the springtime light. 

  20. What It Takes to Live a Good Life: Meghan Sullivan

    March 02, 2023

    No Small Endeavor podcast explores what it means to live a good life, with the help of Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy Meghan Sullivan.