11/09/2026
How can artificial intelligence serve truth and human dignity?
The Master of the Order, fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, has appointed eight friars to a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, fulfilling a mandate of the General Chapter of Kraków in 2025.
Fr. Dominik Jarczewski, OP, will chair the study group, which will examine the implications of these technologies for consecrated life, preaching and the institutions of the Order. Its work will draw on the Church’s recent magisterial teaching, including Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
Members will propose guidance for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in formation, study, governance, administration and communications, while safeguarding the disciplines of the Dominican intellectual tradition.
The study group will collaborate with the Order’s universities, study centers and friars engaged in technological initiatives, and prepare pastoral and ethical guidance for sharing with the faithful.
Its work takes up a question at the heart of our mission, "How do we preach the truth in a world increasingly shaped by AI?"
Read the full article at OP.org.