Being Human in an Age of AI: A roundtable discussion of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas"

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Time: 4:00 AM

Venue: Murphy Recital Hall

City: Los Angeles, CA

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical takes up one of the most urgent questions of the time: how Artificial Intelligence is transforming our lives and societies. Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence asks us to think about what it means to safeguard human dignity and to promote the common good and social justice in a rapidly changing context. Join Jean-Paul Andrieu (Information Technology Services), Jared Coleman (Computer Science), Elizabeth Drummond (Marymount Institute Director | History), John Sebastian (Senior Vice President for Mission), Mairead Sullivan (Associate Provost for Academic Programs & Strategy | Special Assistant to the Provost for Al), and Amy Woodson-Boulton (History | CFD Faculty Fellow for Al) for a discussion of the moral and ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence and its wide-ranging implications for education, labor, family, human relationships, and public life.

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