Thomas Griffin 1/14/26 (For Word on Fire)
Join Our Email List
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox to help grow your faith in practical ways.
The Empty Tomb Project is a non-profit organization – 501(c)(3) – please support our mission by making a tax-deductible donation. DONATE HERE online or find out how to mail us your donation.
Advancing technologies are nothing new. However, the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) does seem unprecedented: Its power, influence, and capacities are growing each week, and there are purportedly no areas of life we are told it will not impact. Therefore, understanding what AI is and how it is not able to replace the human person is critical. To do so, we can find tremendous aid from our old friend Aristotle.
AI is a tool, a form of technology. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines technology as “a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.” Encyclopedia Britannica defines the word as “the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life—or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.”
This is precisely what the creators of AI have been attempting to accomplish.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
Join Our Email List
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
Empty Tomb Project 