CatholicTech faculty at Humanity 2.0

The Pontifical Academy of the Sciences hosted a Humanity 2.0 conference at the Vatican, bringing together engineers and business owners together to discuss solutions on how to align artificial intelligence with human flourishing. Specifically, they asked the questions: what is stopping humans from flourishing, and how can we create solutions for this?

Matthew Sanders, CEO of Humanity 2.0, addressed the fact that while we are becoming more advanced technologically, we are declining on the existential plane – that physiologically and spiritually we are not flourishing. Humanity 2.0 aims at facilitating collaborations between the public and private sector with the world of faith to solve problems that are conflicts to human flourishing.

Fr. Michael Baggot, faculty member of Catholic Institute of Technology and Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, spoke on a panel at the conference on the problems conflicting with human flourishing and artificial intelligence. “It is important to address them from the paradigm of hope, and true authentic Christian hope is based on an understanding of what it means to be created in the image of God. We are co-creators with God so we have the great gift of creativity, and an expression of creativity comes through the technology we make, including AI systems.”

The conference concluded to following this model of human flourishing, and they will meet again next year to continue the discussion. To hear more about the conference, watch this video!