Where Are You Going, Humanity? The Vatican's New AI Document Explained

From The Faith & AI Project

The Vatican just dropped a major document on AI, transhumanism, and the future of humanity titled: "Quo Vadis Humanitas?" In this episode, we sit down with Fr Michael Baggot, LC, a bioethicist based in Rome who specialises in transhumanism and emerging technology, to unpack what the International Theological Commission is saying about digital culture as a living environment, brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, and why the Church insists the body matters more than ever. Three years in the making, this document is the Church reading the signs of the times, and it has a lot to say. (Quick note that Fr. Michael misspoke and said "five" years in the making during the interview.) 🔗 Links mentioned in this episode: "Quo Vadis Humanitas?" (ITC Document): https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/co... Fr Baggot's article "The Quest for Connection in AI Companions": https://jeet.ieet.org/index.php/home/... "Emerging Issues in Catholic Bioethics" (book): https://link.springer.com/book/10.100... Vatican Organisational Structure Chart: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/85... Fr. Michael Baggot, LC, PhD, is a bioethicist based in Rome and one of the Catholic Church's leading voices on transhumanism and emerging technology. He is a Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, teaches at the Angelicum and the Catholic Institute of Technology, and serves as a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. He sits on the Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI and is the editor of Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies (Routledge, 2022). His work has appeared in First Things, Nova et Vetera, and The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and he has been featured on NBC, PBS, EWTN, Pints with Aquinas, and the Future of Life Institute podcast. He co-hosts the YouTube channel Those Two Priests.