"The Federation of Asian Bishops called for the Church to "respond wisely and pastorally" to the rise of AI, according to Radio Veritas Asia. Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the Bishop of Hong Kong, opened the meeting declaring AI was a " gift from God," not "from the devil," The Japan Times reports. In a concluding statement, the bishops said AI was an "expression of human creativity" and offered promise and peril."
"But the prelates also worried about "illusions of intimacy, simulated presence, deepfakes, biased content, and the erosion of truth in the digital environment." The possibility of weakening human relationships was also a concern, with "fake intimacy" in relation to "artificial personas" a particular unease. Ultimately, they declared it is humans who are "endowed with spiritual, moral, emotional, and relational depth, [and] cannot be reduced to algorithms." Human worth "cannot be captured by data or computation.""
Asian bishops urged the Church to respond wisely and pastorally to AI, framing it as an expression of human creativity that offers both promise and peril. Cardinal Stephen Chow described AI as a gift from God rather than from the devil. The bishops recommended engaging AI with prudence and an incarnational vision rooted in human relationships. AI could support evangelization, pastoral care, catechesis, education, and the Church's digital mission. Concerns included illusions of intimacy, simulated presence, deepfakes, biased content, erosion of truth, and weakening human relationships. The bishops emphasized that spiritual, moral, emotional, and relational human depth cannot be reduced to algorithms and called for Catholic AI tools, digitization of resources, human oversight, and pastoral accountability.
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