It happened on MARCH 16

1878
Clemens August von Galen was born at the Dinklage castle in Oldenburg. He was a priest, the Bishop of Munster, and in 1946 made a cardinal. He was among a group of bishops whom Pope Pius XI invited to Rome in January 1937 in order to discuss their situation in Germany and to prepare the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, which expressed alarm about the Nazi regime long before world public opinion in general did. In his homilies, von Galen energetically opposed the State’s violent actions, emphasizing the right to life and the inviolability and liberty of Germany’s citizens. He strongly opposed the euthanasia of those deemed by the Nazi regime to have unproductive, pointless lives, including those who were disabled. He died March 22, 1946 and was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on October 9, 2005.

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AI Ethics Two Years after ChatGPT

Introduction, by Jeffrey Pawlick 

Antiqua et Nova, Notes on the Relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dicastery for Culture and Education (2025)

The AI Dilemma (video), Center for Humane Technology (2023)

The Asilomar AI PrinciplesFuture of Life Institute (2017)

Managing the Risks of Generative AI, Harvard Business Review (2023)

The United Nations Resolution on AI, United Nations General Assembly (2024)

Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, UNESCO (2021)

 AI Thinks. But Do We?, by Riccardo Manzotti (2023)

 AI and the Vatican: What AI is and how it can be usedby Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti (2025)

    

    

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