AI & Faith Dialogues
September 8, 2025
September 8, 2025
How do we make AI worth its cost? By harnessing it to address humanity's greatest challenges. This conference brings together religious leaders, researchers, and lay communities to examine both AI's promise and its inherent risks. Rather than approaching AI as merely a technological advancement, we explore it through the lens of Catholic social teaching, emphasizing human dignity and our responsibility to protect the most vulnerable. The event addresses critical questions: How might AI reshape human relationships and community bonds? What safeguards ensure technology serves rather than supplants our mission to care for others? Through dialogues and workshops, participants will discuss AI development and use that recognize its transformative potential but also the irreplaceable value of human connection.
Rector, Pontifical Filipino College - Rome, Member, Center for Priestly Formation, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross - Rome
Principal Investigator and Clinical Director at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
Catholic Priest, Missiologist, Author,
Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
Director, Philippine Conference on New Evangelization; Executive Secretary, Episcopal Commission on Evangelization and Catechesis
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology, Stanford University
Directorate of Telecommunications of the Governorate of Vatican City State; Member of the AI Commission of Governatorate of Vatican City State
M. Ed. in Media Studies, D. Min. in Pastoral Communication; Director, Pauline Center for Media Studies, Rome Office
Director of Content at Longbeard
Fr. Andrew Giménez Recepción
A journey of Catholic Social Teaching from Leo XIII to the Church’s Thinking in Artificial Intelligence
Fr. Jason H. Laguerta, PhD
Evangelization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Innovation provides possibilities for new methods and expressions in evangelization. Modern technology complements and fosters our mission to proclaim the Good News. When put at the service of the Gospel, AI can provide myriads of assistance that enables the Church to reach more people.
Davide Giordano
TBA
Sr Rose Pacatte, F.S.P.
The Church and A.I.: Discerning Tomorrow’s Tools Today
This brief reflection will explore the Church’s role in discerning possibilities, addressing ethical responsibilities, and fostering faithful, responsible engagement with emerging technologies.
Benjamin Crockett
TBA
Dr. Roxana Daneshju
AI and Social Justice
Senior AI Scientist at the National Irish Center of AI. MIT Critical Data Affiliate
Ophthalmologist and Researcher at EPM-UNIFESP and MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
PhD Student at the University of Paris Saclay-CentraleSupélec; Researcher at MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
PhD student at the Magna Graecia
University of Catanzaro and the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
PhD Student at Poznan University of Technology
Regional Program Manager (consultant) for I-TECH at the University of Washington; Affiliate of MIT Critical Data
Pontifical Filipino College
Via Aurelia 490, 00165 Rome - Italy