Keynote - Handing On the Faith When the Machine Has the Answers

Matthew Harvey-Sanders

with Matthew Harvey Sanders. CEO of Longbeard, founder of Magisterium.com

The questions your candidates most need to ask are no longer coming to you. They are typed privately into a machine that answers instantly, confidently, and without any idea who is asking. In this keynote, Matthew Harvey Sanders, founder of Longbeard and of Magisterium AI, looks squarely at what that means for the catechist. In plain language and without jargon, he explains what these systems are and what they can never be, shows practically how artificial intelligence can serve parish catechesis and where it must never be allowed near it, and sets out what it now takes to form a person rather than merely inform one, in a world where answers are free and formation is scarce. Catechists will leave with three tests to apply to any tool before it reaches a parish, and a renewed sense of why this ministry has never mattered more.