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Theology and Teaching in Light of ChatGPT
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Moderator:
Mary Kate Holman, Assistant Professor
Department of History, Philosophy and Theology
Benedictine University
Panel:
Anne Carpenter, Associate Professor
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Saint Mary's College of California
Stephen Okey, Associate Professor of Theology
Department of Philosophy, Religion and Theology
Saint Leo University
David Turnbloom, Associate Professor
Department of Theology
University of Portland
Precis: Following its launch in November '22, the new AI chatbot ChatGPT has presented some significant and rather daunting challenges to educators at all levels. Our spring virtual event will take up the question of how ChatGPT and similar technologies challenge us, or invite us to new forms of teaching and assessment, precisely as Catholic theologians and teachers of theology. Is this new tool an opportunity for theologians to embrace ‘the modern world’, à la Gaudium et Spes? Does it risk stifling the human task of knowing, à la Lonergan? And how do we talk to students about all this?
