Evangelization does not come naturally to most of us. You can sense this in the awkwardness you feel when you invite someone to come to Mass or talk to a non-believer about Eucharistic adoration.
--Terence Sweeney
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I think Jesus looked down with love and wrote Miriam. I can imagine him tracing the letters in the sand carefully.
--Terence Sweeney
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@jennfrey@McGillPatterson I think that's probably, sadly right. Corners of Catholic universities will do it. Villanova Humanities, USThomas Catholic Studies, and the like.
If Catholic universities are going to dare to be different by heading Pope Leo, then we are going to reject this destruction of education. Like the Middle Ages, we might end up the only universities around.
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Genuinely, can someone give me the steel man version of the rationale behind the new “give everyone AI” university strategy? What is the theory of the case here? Do universities think it’s sustainable to ask students to pay over $90k per year to cheat their way through college?
"The substitution of artificial intelligence for human intelligence threatens the formation of the person as a knower and lover of truth."
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Genuinely, can someone give me the steel man version of the rationale behind the new “give everyone AI” university strategy? What is the theory of the case here? Do universities think it’s sustainable to ask students to pay over $90k per year to cheat their way through college?
“If in a hundred years, Christians are the strange people who still live in the real world and off the avatar world, then we will have done a great thing."
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“If in a hundred years Christians are the strange people who still live in the real world and off the avatar world, then we will have done a great thing. In our educational missions, we need to commit to this.”
Recovering a Passion for Being https://t.co/7tVp9xBzgS
recalling English graduate student seminars of the late 20th century in which "literary theory" was the rage, & within a decade or two most of these "literary theorists" were totally out of fashion & near-forgotten.
imagine spending months or years of your life reading "literary theory" instead of what is called primary sources: literature itself.
Pope Leo brings needed inspiration about the big threats from AI: war, unemployment, oligarchy.
But Magnifica Humanitas misses how technology is killing us through a thousand tiny cuts — eroding relationships, degrading everyday life, turning the human experience into slop.
Framing “Magnifica Humanitas” as an AI manifesto is a way to misdirect away from the broader point. The central object of the Pope’s critique isn’t the technology, but the socioeconomic systems under which it’s emerged.
The Traditionalist Catholics want us to reject modernity and retvrn to tradition by... using an AI that was invented in 2023 to mock and criticize a papal encyclical.
“The gospel means I have no right to war, injustice, exploitation, or harshness. I only have the right to offer freely what has been offered to me: faith, hope, and love.” @TerenceJSweeney
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“We embrace AI as not something we simply do…AI is part of who and how we are.”
I’m going to say it for the thousandth time: the problem is not the cheating students. They are a symptom of a problem. The problem is that academic administrators are at war with education itself.