Aug 2026· Journal of Religious Ethics· 0 citations· 22 references
Abstract
This paper argues that the regular use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by young people can thwart their opportunities to develop practical wisdom by substituting for or displacing various practices that this virtue's cultivation requires. The argument unfolds in five steps. First, I review some of GenAI's capabilities and uses, highlighting those that can interfere with intellectual and moral development. Second, I discuss Aristotle's definition of practical wisdom (
phronesis
) and Aquinas's corresponding analysis of the “integral parts” of prudence (
prudentia
). Third, I draw on Matthew Stichter's
The Skillfulness of Virtue
to confirm that persons acquire a virtue much as they acquire a skill—through concerted practice. Next, I explain some of the ways in which frequent GenAI use is likely to hinder the daily practices by which practical wisdom is slowly acquired by young people. I conclude that the rapid adoption of GenAI for even mundane tasks should incite pause, due to its potentially serious moral consequences.
It is argued that intelligence should be assessed not by output quality or efficiency alone, but by its impact on intellectual character, arguing that intelligence should be assessed not by output quality or efficiency alone, but by its impact on intellectual character.
A theologically grounded account of artificial intelligence is advanced by reading Catholic social teaching through the media theory of Marshall McLuhan, arguing that AI operates as a medium that reshapes the conditions under which embodied, relational, God-oriented knowing is possible.
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