Lonergan's method and current applications using AI
John Raymaker
PIERRE WHALON
Le 2 mai 2026 à 09:44, 'John Raymaker' via Lonergan_L <loner...@googlegroups.com> a écrit :
Bernard Lonergan's Generalized Empirical Method (GEM) is being applied to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ground ethical, human-centric technology in the structured, four-level process of human consciousness: Experience, Understanding, Judgment, and Decision.
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John Raymaker
Hugh Williams
Pierre, John, et al,
A recent academia discussion focused somewhat on Schillebeeckx’s Christology and liberation theology, drew out a crucial contribution from someone who, in my view, represented a growing fascination with what AI is doing and can do. I’ve seen more and more of this fascination at least among some …
I wrote and asked in response – “Again, thanks for your willingness to communicate on these matters ... I think we share some of the same perspective with regard to the institutional church’s presumed dogmatic authority based upon what is called ‘revealed theology’. And yet for various reasons, we may be attending to different things, you to AI developments and their implications for human civilization, while I’m concerned, like Baum and Segundo, with the neglect of what I hold to be fundamental and necessary human transitions focused and centered on social and ecological justice. You’ve said very little about this … do you hold to the prospect that it is these AI technological advances that will enable ‘us’ to implement these necessary ‘justice transitions’?”
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So, my concern is this - if AI is taking people’s attention and concern away from this justice concern which now presents itself in terms of an outrageous social inequality … then it is nothing less than insidious … and furthermore thinking back on Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si” which had to do equally with both ‘climate change’ and ‘inequality’, capitalism’s continued insistence that ‘there is no alternative’, so that then it is some sort of ‘technological fix’ that is going to allow us, or some of us, to somehow ‘continue on’ is even more insidious …
I’m increasingly convinced we now are faced with a choice of planetary and biblical proportions (see Deut.30:15,19) – ecological justice or ruin. And the ecological justice means some serious consideration of the socialist revolutionary option. My next paper, to the extent I’m able to manage it, will make this argument in which the good AIRR(2023) text will feature prominently … at least once we get past the unfortunate ideologically charged negative remarks regarding ‘socialism’ that occur both in the text (and in Lonergan) here and there. (Juan Luis Segundo the Latin American liberation theologian and fellow Jesuit is particularly good on exposing/uncovering this interrelationship between ideology and faith in Christianity … I’ve not read anyone else who quite articulates this issue so clearly …)
Hugh
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