Part 5 — The Perfect Machine and the Imperfect Human In Brother Robot, Carbajo-Núñez critiques the technocratic desire to control, predict, and optimize not only systems, but human beings themselves. He contrasts this with a Franciscan anthropology that treats human weakness and limitation not merely as defects to eliminate, but as conditions that create dependence,…

Part 4 — Efficiency for Whom? Efficiency is not a bad thing. Businesses, nonprofits, churches, schools, and communities all have limited time and resources. Reducing waste and improving productivity can be good stewardship. But Franciscan thought asks a second question: efficiency for whom? In Brother Robot, Carbajo-Núñez critiques an economic logic that reduces people to…

Part 3 — Who Gave the Algorithm Authority? Every technology redistributes power, and AI is no exception. When an algorithm influences who gets hired, which customer receives attention, which employee is flagged, which application is reviewed, or which person is considered a risk, authority has moved somewhere, even if the organization never explicitly discussed it….

Part 2 — AI Can Give Us Answers. Can It Give Us Truth? We are living through an explosion of information. Artificial intelligence can summarize arguments, analyze data, explain complex ideas, compare perspectives, and produce polished answers in seconds. That is useful and, at times, astonishing. But the speed and fluency of AI can also…

Part 1 — We Keep Asking “Can We?” When the Better Question Is “Should We?” Artificial intelligence keeps making the question “Can we?” easier to answer. Can we automate this workflow? Can we replace this task? Can we predict this customer’s behavior? Can we have a machine draft the email, conduct the interview, tutor the…