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Phyllis Zagano

Long Island
As seen in: Religion News Service, The Globe and Mail, Flipboard, The Irish Times, Newsday, The Salt Lake Tribune, Fordham University, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Las Vegas Sun, America Magazine, Christian Today and
Award-winning author and scholar specializing in Catholic women's ministry past and present, especially the ancient tradition of women deacons.

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A child is coming to save us. Perhaps he'll remind us to do better by the children we have.

A child is coming to save us. Perhaps he'll remind us to do better by the children we have.

(RNS) - Christians soon will welcome a newborn child to the world. His traveling parents found simple shelter…

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As Pope Francis' critics vent their anger, what comes out is vaccine disinformation

As Pope Francis' critics vent their anger, what comes out is vaccine disinformation

(RNS) - A virulent strain of anger in various American Catholic circles is increasingly directed at Pope Fran…

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A Catholic solution to gender bias in AI

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By Phyllis Zagano, Michael Sean Winters 
| National Catholic Reporter
Olah specializes in reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. That means he looks inside the machine, as it were, trying to understand how it learns, how it "thinks," how it makes decisions. But almost everything he studies comes from the male point of view. The male viewpoint dominates AI answers, AI algorithms, AI predictions and AI decisions from start to finish. Would "gender-neutral" be any better?
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A Catholic solution to gender bias in AI

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By Meagan Saliashvili, Phyllis Zagano
| Religion News Service
(RNS) — The widespread analyses of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” overlook one thing: Artificial intelligence is inherently male. Most people think of AI as a tool to summarize information through what are called large language models. The problem: LLMs are trained by men, and most of the data and information available has been created by men. Most of the programmers teaching AI to “think” are men. So, AI decision-making and prediction behaviors are essentially male.
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Trump is detached from reality. The 25th Amendment exists for this moment.

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By Phyllis Zagano
| National Catholic Reporter
On Easter Sunday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump published a foul-mouthed tirade against Iran, threatening to destroy a civilization. One week later, on Orthodox Easter Sunday, he attacked Pope Leo XIV as "weak on crime." Then, on Monday (April 13), he posted an AI-generated image of himself in flowing robes as Jesus, the healer. Trump's tirade continues. He may well see it as just another fight: Donny from Queens v. Bob from Chicago. But the world watches, in astonishment.
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free-lance column: New York Tiimes

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

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