Washington, DC Newsroom, February 4, 2025/11:10 AM
Several eminent Catholic thinkers and political experts support a new professional political program on the future of technology.
The president of the Center of Ethics and Public Policy, Ryan T. Anderson, the author and the professor of Notre-Dame at the University of Notre-Dame, Patrick Deneen, and Robert P. George of Princeton University Among the 28 signatories to the technology declaration: “A future for the family: a new technological program for the right. “”
Posted in First Things magazine on January 29 the declaration serves as a mission statement for a wider initiative, “A future for the family», Sponsored by several eminent pro-family reflection groups, including the Institute for Family Studies, The Ethics and Public Policy Center, The Foundation for American Innovation and The Heritage Foundation.
“A new era of technological change is on our doors. He threatens to supplant the human person and make the family functionally and biologically useless. But this anti-human result is not inevitable, ”says the declaration. “We must adopt policies that raise the family to a main constituency of technological advancement.”
The declaration offers 10 “guiding principles” for the use of technology to serve families instead of “military, bureaucratic and business purposes”. Among them, there are calls to “respect the natural cycle of mortality”, to promote methods of natural fertility and to protect human sexuality from societal ills such as pornography, sexual abuse materials for children and other sexual content generated by AI.
The authors of the declaration also called for measures to combat addictive software on intelligent devices, in particular for children, increased protection of data in legislation, promotion of technologies “which improves human skills and improves the satisfaction of workers “and more projects that encourage” culture of the natural world. “”
“Sailing the family is to cancel the future,” concludes the press release. “To strengthen the family is to fulfill the future of possibility, invention and hope.”
The additional signatories include the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, the law professor of the University of Notre-Dame and the ethics and the Center for Public Policy, O. Carter Snead, and the editor RR Reno.
Madalaine Elhabbal is a journalist for the staff of the Catholic press agency based at the EWTN in Washington, DC, Bureau. It was published by Catholicvote and also worked as a foreign language assistant in France. She graduated from the Benedictine college.