Science and Technology

"Technological progress is part of God's plan for creation," the Vatican said, but people must take responsibility for using technologies like artificial intelligence to help humanity and not harm individuals or groups.

The use of artificial intelligence in schools must not threaten "the indispensable relationship between teacher and student" that lies at the heart of education, the Vatican said.

Hundreds of Canadian Catholic and public schools across the country ended 2024 victimized by a widespread cyber-attack breach of the PowerSchool student information system.

To ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used in an ethical, transparent and responsible manner in Vatican City State, the city-state governor's office has released a set of guidelines on AI, which will be followed by new laws and regulations.

Aimed at reaching out to people unable to go to Rome for the Holy Year and helping the millions who are expected to visit St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican teamed up with Microsoft and other specialized experts to create a "digital twin" of the church for an immersive and more meaningful experience.

Dozens of technologists and Catholics gathered at Microsoft in Redmond for a conversation about ethics in artificial intelligence between an "unlikely pair," as they were introduced: a papal adviser and the head of Microsoft.

The phenomenon of male loneliness has risen strikingly in recent years, the problem so glaring that some Canadian and U.S. social scientists classify it as an epidemic.

More than 100 days after its introduction, Bill C-63, The Online Harms Act, which immediately sparked passionate reactions of furor or support, was debated for the first time in the House of Commons June 7.

With Christians being one of the more excluded communities worldwide, Zaia Ventures is working to develop a space that looks to change that for good.

When lewd AI-generated images of Taylor Swift showed up on the internet earlier this year, it felt like a sign of the times, with the technocratic anarchy of AI’s generative potential being joined in unholy matrimony to pornography’s capacity for dehumanization.