Everyone is talking about AI and its implications for the future of work and productivity. But fewer people are discussing what AI reveals about how humanity itself is understood.
AI supposes a reductive view of intelligence and a reductive, physicalist understanding of the human. As it turns out, the Catholic tradition is well-positioned to supply a better vision of the human being and can be a better source of hope.
Dr R. J. Snell is Director of the Center on the University and Intellectual Life at the Witherspoon Institute. Before his appointment at the Center, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College. His research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ.
This talk was recorded at St. Gregory the Great Church in Hamilton Square, NJ on April 21, 2026.
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