A Technology-for-Good Dialogue: How Do We Make Technology Good for Humanity?

In 2015, Pope Francis issued Laudato Si’, his first and most influential statement about our responsibility to our planetary home. Laudato Si' makes explicit that the human relationship with technology is at the root of our failure to care both for each other and for the Earth. In this engaging conversation with a leading scholar and teacher of Laudato Si' and Catholic ethics and spirituality, we’ll explore why Pope Francis was so concerned about technology, how his ideas about technology have influenced thinking inside and beyond Catholicism about the twin crises facing humanity in climate change and global injustice, and how we might use these ideas to rethink how we approach the ethics of new technologies like AI and build a better future for people and the planet.

Guest:

Keith Douglass Warner, OFM, Professor of Ethics & Spirituality, Franciscan School of Theology, University of San Diego

Host:

Clark A. Miller, Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University