Fr. Eamonn McCarthy and Matthias Conroy begin a new document after completing Dilexi Te, Pope Leo XIV’s message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, titled Preserving Human Voices and Faces. Matthias opens by drawing on his own philosophy thesis on the metaphysics of sound to illuminate the document’s remarkable starting point — that the Greek word for “face” (prosōpon) means what is before one’s gaze, while “person” (persona) evokes the unmistakable sound of someone’s voice.

The conversation moves through the document’s argument that faces and voices bear an indelible reflection of divine love; that human persons are not barcodes or algorithms but irreplaceable interlocutors called into relationship with God and each other; that AI threatens to replace not just menial tasks but the creative and communicative capacities most essential to human flourishing; that passive consumption of “unthought thoughts” from anonymous AI systems erodes cognitive, emotional and spiritual capacity; and that the hardest question is not what machines can do but what we can achieve by growing in humanity through their wise use. Matthias brings sharp analysis of training bias (citing the Grok/Elon Musk episode) and the difference between AI that augments human activity and AI that replaces it. A rich and timely episode.

L'articolo Pope Leo on AI: World Communications Day Message – Preserving Human Voices and Faces – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.