A conference on artificial intelligence was held last week at the PRECIS Centre of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest.
On this occasion, Professor Adrian Lemeni from the “Patriarch Justinian” Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest spoke about the courage to embrace authenticity in an era increasingly governed by the logic of the impersonal.
“It was an opportunity to bear witness to authenticity, to the courage of assuming authenticity in the age of artificial intelligence.”
“In a context in which we are increasingly confronted with the logic of the impersonal, of automation—not only of thought, but also a standardisation not just of thinking, but of life itself—I believe it is very important to rediscover and testify to the courage of authenticity,” Professor Lemeni told Trinitas TV.
Do not be deceived
He stressed the importance of not allowing ourselves to be captured by a certain spirit that stands behind the explosion of artificial intelligence.
“For my part, I emphasised that, beyond the truly remarkable results we observe in the field of artificial intelligence—and obviously, there is no question of contesting these results—
I believe it is important not to let ourselves be deceived by the risk of becoming prisoners of a certain spirit that actually underlies this entire AI boom,” Professor Lemeni concluded.
Authenticity is the restoration of the human person in Christ
The conference also included presentations from university professors Florin Pop, from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, and Ștefan Trăușan-Matu, from the Department of Computer Science at the same university and a researcher at the Romanian Academy’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Florin Pop explained that human authenticity—especially today—is nothing other than the restored image of Christ in the human person.
“This axis of human authenticity, regardless of the era, but especially now when technology and artificial intelligence are growing exponentially, is nothing other than the restored image of Christ in man. This is the stronghold of the future. This must be our direction,” he said, quoted by Lumina Newspaper.
The limitations of artificial intelligence
In his remarks, Professor Ștefan Trăușan-Matu warned about the limitations inherent to this digital tool.
“We must be careful because sometimes it makes mistakes—it hallucinates; sometimes it is biased, and that is why we should not place total trust in it. It is a very useful tool, but we must treat it as a tool and apply discernment,” he said.
He also stressed that “artificial intelligence is based entirely on words, on texts that it has learned and can repeat like a parrot—on a completely different level, of course. But it has no spirit, no love, no soul.”
Photo: Lumina Newspaper
