Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like a Church

As new technologies reshape the conditions of perception, knowledge, governance, and action, they also raise deeper questions about the human person and the institutions meant to serve him. The Catholic Church has faced such turning points before. The Industrial Revolution helped give rise to Rerum Novarum and a new era of social teaching. Today, amid the rise of artificial intelligence and a new architecture of information, what should the Church see clearly, resist where necessary, and help to build?

This private dinner includes tech founders and CEOs, clergy, and more, to discuss.