Exploring AI: What Is Intelligence in the Christian Tradition? (Aquinas 101) @ThomisticInstitute
Exploring AI: What Is Intelligence in the Christian Tradition? (Aquinas 101)  @ThomisticInstitute
Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Artificial intelligence dazzles us: it recommends our music, generates photorealistic images, writes code, and more. But what does it mean to call AI “intelligent”?

To answer that question, Prof. Jordan Wales, Ph.D., explores what intelligence means in the Christian tradition, then elaborates on the distinction between human intelligence and AI.

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