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Is Polycentricity the Solution to Regulating AI?

By Philip Booth

Philip Booth weighs state, civil society and market solutions to AI's power problem and judges polycentric governance the most workable path.

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Destroying Books and Developing AI: For What Good?

By Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan considers the destruction of rare books for AI training data, and asks what genuine human good the development of these models is meant to serve.

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Money Idol or Icon

Money: Idol or Icon? What a redundant executive teaches us about wisdom

By Philip Krinks

Philip Krinks retells Jesus's Parable of the Unjust Steward as a corporate restructuring, asking what wisdom Christians should bring to money and whether they treat it as idol or icon.

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The Lost Russian Liberalism of S.L. Frank

The Lost Russian Liberalism of S.L. Frank

By Dylan Pahman

Dylan Pahman examines the political philosophy of Russian Orthodox thinker S.L. Frank, whose theology of spontaneous order and personal freedom challenges assumptions about Orthodoxy and illiberalism.

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Duty, Virtue and Artificial Intelligence

By Neil Jordan

Any duties we have to artificial intelligence are best understood as indirect duties to human beings.

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Trust in Markets, Trust in God

Trust in Markets, Trust in God

By Nicolas Baumgartner

Nicolas Baumgartner on why trust in markets and trust in God are not the same kind of thing.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

By Neil Jordan

If machines do the work and the state pays the wage, what becomes of our dignity?

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The Vocation of Entrepreneurship

The Vocation of Entrepreneurship

By Philip Booth

Entrepreneurship is a distinct vocation, requiring virtues rarely articulated in management literature. Drawing on economic analysis of radical uncertainty alongside Catholic social teaching from Pius XII to Francis, Philip Booth sets out the virtues demanded of the entrepreneur — and argues that they extend well beyond business, to civil society (...)

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Competition – Not only Ethically Positive, but Necessary

By Ernie Graham

Is competition merely a necessary evil to be restrained? Drawing on Trinitarian theology and the doctrine of stewardship, this blog argues that rightly ordered competition is essential to human flourishing.

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Explaining Social Justice using the Prodigal Son

Explaining Social Justice using the Prodigal Son

By Philip Booth

Philip Booth uses the Parable of the Prodigal Son to distinguish social justice from distributive justice in Catholic social teaching, and explain the common good.

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The (Pro)Vocation of the Business Leader

By Francisco Mota S.J.

Fr. Francisco Mota S.J. on why business leadership is a true vocation—and why good goods, good work, and good wealth demand more than advocacy alone.

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