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HEET 2026Steven Umbrello The inaugural conference of the Hub for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (HEET), a new research hub affiliated with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), based at the University of Turin. This full-day event will bring together leading experts and early-career researchers to explore the ethical dimensions of emerging technologies, including human enhancement, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology. Register Here Program

Abstract This Letter to the Editor responds to Dr. Lily M. Abadal’s essay “Beware of Catholic AI,” published in Public Discourse (November 11, 2025). While affirming the shared goal of forming souls in truth, the author argues that Catholic AI projects such as Magisterium AI are necessary evangelical tools in an increasingly digital and secular world. Abandoning them, he contends, would forfeit a vital mission field to relativist technologies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v35i1.165 Keywords: human dignity, digital ethics, Dignitas Infinita, Catholic Social Teaching, misinformation, digital violence, common-sense bias, imago Dei, Bernard Lonergan, synodal method References 1. Aïmeur, Esma, Sabrine Amri, and Gilles Brassard. “Fake News, Disinformation and Misinformation in Social Media: A Review.” Social Network Analysis and Mining 13, no. 1 (2023): 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-023-01028-5. 2. Alberts, David Stephen, and...

Details Event Description A conference, at Princeton University and virtual, October 6 & 7. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a huge impact on our lives and will continue to do so in the future. While most discussions of AI’s impact are about impacts on humans, this conference aims at investigating and evaluating AI’s impacts on two classes of nonhuman beings, nonhuman animals and potentially sentient or conscious AI.

David Gunkel and S.B. Divya, “How Would We Know if Machines Were Conscious?” October 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Oct 21, 1PM, On Zoom, David Gunkel (Northern Illinois) and S.B. Divya (science fiction author), “How Would We Know if Machines Were Conscious?” Zoom reg link: https://tinyurl.com/42terke7

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About the Journal JEET (ISSN 2767-6951) is premised on the belief that emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, advanced pharmacology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology will shape future life to an unprecedented extent. JEET publishes academic discussions of possible developments in such technologies and reflections on ethically desirable developments. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Mark Walker Open Access— free for readers and authors. There are NO APC's.