Roman Catholic. Lucky husband. CEO of Longbeard. We built Magisterium AI, Vulgate AI, Ephrem: world’s first Catholic AI.
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Grateful to Jason Deuterman and the team at @OSV for inviting me to give an OSV Talk, "AI and the Work That Remains".
I believe AI is about to give us back more time than we have ever had, and the real question is what that time is for. In this talk, I argue that the Church has been answering that question for two thousand years, and that the parish is where we learn it again.
You are needed because love still needs hands. I hope it's helpful. Link to full talk in comments.
Finally! Catholic Intelligence is live. It's our first major effort to off-ramp people from AI to a real parish.
People are already asking AI about coming back to the Church, becoming Catholic, or baptism. Now @magisteriumai can point them to a parish nearby, using its current Mass times and ministries. For dioceses and parishes, it also brings their directory, statistics, reports and pastoral insights into one dashboard.
This one is close to my heart. AI should lead people to a living community, not keep them on a screen. Hope it's useful. Links in comments.
For dioceses: magisterium.com/catholic-int…
For parishes: magisterium.com/catholic-int…
Video: youtu.be/0icVDD_a4xQ?si=tnQY…
Agree.
He who shapes power, data centers, chips and models into an economically feasible endpoint, disproportionately shapes AI/SI right now.
Why?
Power is THE binding constraint in AI/SI. Few really have it.
Data centers don’t work without power. This is not about promises of power tomorrow. Or forecasted power in 2028. Power TODAY.
Chips can’t operate profitably unless installed in a functional data center. If you can install chips, it’s because you’ve solved the power problem.
Models aren’t economically viable unless run on cost effective infrastructure which requires a functional data center with low input costs and reliable management. This can’t happen without power.
AI/SI ROI doesn’t pencil unless models generate profitable outputs which necessarily needs functional data centers as the critical input. Again, power.
Ergo, he who can shape data centers, chips and models together into a tightly coordinated stack is someone who has solved power.
Solving power allows you to disproportionately shape AI/SI right now.
The promise of a more efficient bureaucracy. We'll see...
We built PlanAssist to help UK Government planning officers speed up building and renovations across the country.
Built with Gemini, it has shown it can cut the time planning officers spend assessing householder applications by up to 58%. It is now being made available to 12 more councils to help them to make faster decisions. 🏡 → goo.gle/4iQXYkl
Grateful to Mike Nall and Saint Clement Parish in Chicago for the invitation to speak at their Men's Executive Series. The question on the program was what these men will build when machines can build "almost anything except a man willing to give his life for something". In this speech, I tell the story of Isaac Hecker, who spent his life trying to bring America to Christ with the printing press among his tools, and of the Jesuit martyrs Jean de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues (@jesuitnews), who kept going back to the people who would kill them. As a convert who studied with the @PaulistFathers Hecker founded, his story is close to my heart. I hope it's helpful. Link to video and speech in comments.
As I live and breathe. Didn't see this coming from @GaryMarcus. Well done old boy.
We just launched the new Library in @magisteriumai. You can now search Church teaching, theology and the spiritual classics by title or author, save books to read next, and organize them into your own collections. There are audiobooks too, with a choice of voices, and it remembers your place in each book. A new way to return to the great works. Try it out. Link in comments.
Link to blog: magisterium.com/blog/new-lib…
Link to try it out: magisterium.com/library
As a convert to Catholicism, I couldn't agree more. I'm grateful some Catholics cared enough about my soul to share the truth.
"Woe unto me, if I preach not the gospel"
Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
Very grateful to @PhilipLarrey for the kind mention in his interview with @VaticanNews, and to @DeborahLubov for the piece.
His view on AI and cloistered nuns is worth reading. It can't do much for prayer, which is a direct relationship with God, but it can help with the practical business of dealing with lawyers, suppliers and the wider world. His advice on reliability is the one I'd give anyone: check the references and verify they're real. Never take an AI's word on faith alone.
Link to article in comments.
Link to article: vaticannews.va/en/church/new…
This is nuts! Well done @nvidia
Grateful to the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference for inviting me to speak to the people who keep the books for America's dioceses.
In "A Century in a Decade: Diocesan Finance and the Age of AI and Robotics", I cover the risks already on a finance officer's desk, from AI voice-cloning fraud to staff pasting parish data into consumer chatbots, and why a clear policy works better than a ban. I also make the case for sovereign AI: a model running on a machine the diocese owns, grounded in its own documents, with its data never leaving the building. And I argue that once reporting is automated, there's little reason not to open the books to the faithful.
I hope it's useful. Link to speech in comments.
Link to speech: longbeard.com/blog/a-century…
This is a very cool use of technology. Well done @Google and @joshwoodward
🇺🇸 For a deployed service member, missing family moments adds up. Baby’s first step. The first performance. Sharing a laugh.
In honor of National Day of the Deployed, we’re excited to partner with @USArmy and @The_USO to bring Google Beam to 20 locations so deployed service members can experience lifelike, 3D video connections with their loved ones.
🎥 Watch the docuseries below