Generative Artificial Intelligence & The Technocratic Paradigm

The 2024 CAPPF International Conference aims at considering benefits and problems connected to the fast and extensive evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, the Conference is devoted to analyze how the AI and in particular the recent evolution of Generative AI (AIGen) can (and should) be both developed and used for the wealth of persons and environment, moving beyond the so damaging and destructive technocratic paradigm, and promoting instead a fruitful interaction of natural systems with social systems within the integral ecology paradigm.

In 2015, with Laudato Sì (LS), Pope Francis launched a warning to the world on the urgent need of care for creation as a central moral obligation. His groundbreaking encyclical brings together the call to protect the environment and to defend the “least of these” through an integral ecology that challenges all of us to action. He moved from observing how the world, both the natural one…