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"It is Good that You Are" The Human Person in the Age of AI and The Digital Revolution
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- The Moral Imagination
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- May 20, 2026
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Summary
This is a talk I gave at an Acton Institute conference in Rome on the Human Person, AI, and the Digital Revolution in December 2025. The talk focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence and the digital revolution on the human person and and specifically how we understand ourselves. Photo Credit: Chat GPT — Prompt - MMM While there are many benefits to digital technology, artificial intelligence is amplifying many of the negatives impacts on how we understand the person. It has led to a mechanistic vision of the human person and reductive vision of reason, freedom, emotions and more. Some of the problems I address include: * Understanding ourselves through the computer * Digital Bureaucratization * Denigration of the Body * Commodification of Persons * Surveillance * Behavior Modification * Transhumanism — AI, CRISPR, and designer babies I conclude with a response of philosophy of the person that is not filtered through computer analogies , but grounded in the vision that being is good, matter is good, our bodies are good - not accidents - but constituent of who we are, and with richer concept of reason, intelligence, emotions, and our social nature, and with agency and grace. A key element of digital revolution is Claude Shannon’s work on information theory in which he discusses Noise and Signal: The Gospel and Christian vision of the person is the signal in the midst of so many distortions about the nature and destiny of the human person. Outline and Themes The Nature of the Digital Revolution * The Digital Revolution is not a single phenomenon; we are still in its early stages, and it is hard to predict what will happen. * It has produced: * Increases in productivity * Medicine * Education * New industries and faster, broader globalization * Mobile and satellite…