Faith & Justice

Summit on Human Dignity

The Summit

Part of the transformational experience that is Jesuit education is to start young men and women on an early path to awareness of social issues and current affairs, and to teach them how to become advocates for social justice and positive change in the world. At Brophy, the annual Summit on Human Dignity (modeled after those most often seen at colleges and universities) highlights an issue that is particularly relevant and informs students on its nuances, as well as its social and political ramifications.

Brophy hopes to graduate young men of competence, conscience and compassion who will one day use their voices, as well as their votes, to influence and affect change beneficial to the marginalized in society.

Past Summit Topics

1/19

Summit 2025: "What can I help with?" Human Dignity in the Age of AI

Mission Statement

When we open up ChatGPT, it asks us a simple question: “What can I help with?” Rather than unreflectively requesting any number of tasks, our Summit instead wants to respond by taking ChatGPT’s question seriously. How can it and other forms of AI really help us? Are we using it in ways that do help us, or in ways that risk diminishing ourselves and others? And what is this technology actually capable of doing, positively and negatively, now and in the future? Perhaps ChatGPT’s “How can I help you?” is not as simple a question as we thought.

This is why we have titled our Summit: “What can I help with?”: Human Dignity in the Age of AI. We find ourselves in a time of rapid technological progress that is remaking the fabric of our society, culture, economy, education, and more, and challenging longstanding ideas about what it means to be human and to live in community with one another. It is a theme of history that our technological innovations outpace our capacity and commitment to reflect on their full effects. With the breakneck speed at which artificial intelligence is developing, it is more important than ever that we dedicate ourselves to a sincere reflection on the hopes we are investing in AI and other emergent technologies, along with the anxieties they raise. Indeed, our faith calls us to do so, as Pope Francis and the Vatican have been consistent in pointing out.

Through a series of keynotes, workshops, prayer services and activities, the Brophy community will be exploring these complex and thought-provoking issues as we wrestle with the blessings and challenges brought about by our own human nature and the tools we create. We look forward to becoming men and women better able to live for and with others thanks to this opportunity to discern how we can center our engagement with AI through a commitment first and foremost to the dignity of human beings and communities.

Click here for more information on the 2025 Summit on Human Dignity.