03/07/2026 09:00
- 19:30
HALL: Parenzo - Aula Magna
Contact:
Miklavcic J.
Chair:
Žalec B.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly encountered not only as a technical tool but as a conversational and social presence—one that people interpret, trust, resist, or rely on in shaping how they learn, decide, relate, and make meaning. This panel focuses on perception and interpretation: how individuals and communities experience AI's agency, limits, authority, and bias, and how these perceptions reshape epistemic security, moral responsibility, and everyday as well as institutional practices. It builds an interdisciplinary dialogue among theology and religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, ethics, psychology, and education. Within this horizon, the panel foregrounds religious and theological dimensions of AI's growing influence: its impact on spiritual practice and discernment, religious formation and catechesis, and contemporary imaginaries of transcendence, the divine, and human dignity. It also examines how interaction with AI reconfigures empathy and emotional attachment—especially when AI is experienced as advisor, companion, or substitute for human presence—and how such experiences may alter relationships, vulnerability, and accountability. Overall, the panel investigates how AI is perceived and narrated in ways that co-shape contemporary understandings of the human person, community, and God.
