Artificial Intelligence (AI): Resources & Information
 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence changes almost daily. This page gathers practical resources, ethical guidance, Catholic perspectives, educational research, prompt engineering techniques, and AI design tools that have proven useful for faculty, students, ministers, and lifelong learners.
New resources are added regularly.

Last Updated: 07/23/2026

Ways to Ask AI Questions:         (Index)

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AI Design Styles & Effects:         (Index)

  • Gold-Star_ChatGPT ChatGPT Classical & Sacred Font Style Guide: “For sacred art, Facebook graphics, feast-day banners, and illuminated manuscript designs, fonts are almost a world unto themselves. Think of them as vestments for words. The same message can appear regal, medieval, joyful, solemn, or contemporary depending on the lettering.”

  • Gold-Star_ChatGPT ChatGPT Graphics Styles Sheet: Includes: Classical Sacred Styles, Vintage / Retro Styles, Cinematic / Epic Styles, Painterly / Artistic Styles, Modern / Experimental Styles, Typography-Driven Variations, Cultural / Historical Inspirations, Mood Variations, also, an Aspect ratios chart.

  • AI Graphic Design Styles & Effects Cheat Sheet: Medium-Based Styles, Material-Based Styles, Photography Styles, Lighting Effects, Color Palettes, Fonts & Text Effects.

  • ChatGPT: Keyboard Shortcuts & Writing Tricks. The Shift + Enter trick is the first “secret door” most people discover. It lets you add a new line without sending the message. Attached are a few other shortcuts that can make ChatGPT feel less like typing into a mailbox and more like using a real editor.

  • ChatGPT Prompt Genius: Did you know that ChatGPT has secret codes?

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Papal Messages:         (Index)

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Ethical & Moral Questions:         (Index)
  1. AI, its Capabilities and Threats

  2. The AI Paradigm of Knowing and its Problems

  3. The Human Paradigm of Knowing, How it Is Different, Why it Is Not Replicable with AI

  4. Artificial Intelligence: Summary and Conclusions

  • Artificial Intelligence Is Not an All-powerful Deity, University Expert Warns: Ana Lazcano, director of the University Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Francisco de Vitoria University in Spain, warned that AI is not an all-powerful deity and it is necessary to “lay the foundations of critical thinking” about the technology. … Lazcano explained … “It is a discipline that has arrived like a tsunami, an interdisciplinary science that is sweeping us all away in every area, and we need a unified approach; we need to build strength together.”

  • Environmentally Conscious Franciscans about the Use of AI: I asked ChatGPT this question: How do I respond to Franciscans who are environmentally conscious about the use of AI when they bring up environmental concerns about high energy usage raising energy costs, and about using up water systems? There were a few more environmental issues I don’t remember. One was, how can I trust AI to give me an accurate reply.

  • Here’s How AI Is Being Used to Persecute Christians. Gia Chacón | National Catholic Register | August 14, 2025. "When technology serves power instead of the person, the result is not progress but oppression."

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AI & Education:         (Index)

Columbia Business School: (Columbia University in the City of New York)

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AI News & Articles:         (Index)

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FoxNews:

BBC: Artificial Intelligence:

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CNET: AI Atlas

The Wall Street Journal:

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Conversations with AI:         (Index)

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Curated by Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR in collaboration with ChatGPT
Where human experience and artificial intelligence cultivate ideas together.