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The episode discusses the impact of AI and the digital revolution on the understanding of the human person.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Matheson Miller

Topics covered

• Human Person
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Revolution
• Philosophy of the Person
• Commodification of Persons
• Surveillance
• Transhumanism

Keywords

• human person
• AI
• digital technology
• philosophy
• transhumanism
• surveillance
• behavior modification
• information theory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acton Institute

Products: AI, CRISPR

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