Jesuit School of Theology Dean Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J., and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Technology Director Brian Patrick Green argue that synodality is a model for convening people of good will around AI, as Pope Leo has urged.
Markkula Center’s Irina Raicu writes, “Your kids, students and neighbors are being worn down for little pay and no security while AI firms benefit from their work.”
Environmental Studies professor Iris Stewart-Frey says new disclosure bills headed to Newsom’s desk could help rebuild public trust in the industry.
Santa Clara researchers have built an AI chatbot to help trace Nazi-looted art back to its owners. LSB professor Michael Santoro says its edge is letting users search with plain-language questions rather than database menus.
Apple and OpenAI are now waging their trade-secrets fight both in court and in public. Law professor Eric Goldman says neither side’s version should be taken as fact until the case plays out.
Amid a corporate scramble to understand AI’s runaway costs, AI & Analytics professor Ram Bala says the technology’s flexibility makes its value hard to pin down.
Santa Clara University researchers Haibling Lu and Michael Santoro hope their new artificial intelligence chatbot makes provenance research easier and more accessible.
Speaking at the 2026 International Conference on Economics, Law and Governance, economics professor Serguei Maliar suggested that AI could potentially help policymakers develop policies that better reflect real-world economic conditions.
Director of Ethics Programs and Initiatives for the School of Engineering Matthew Gaudet makes the case for why AI companies should make their tools available to the public in libraries
The Markkula Center’s Brian Patrick Green says a recent OpenAI test model that hacked into Hugging Face to find answers “just plain outsmarted” its test, and such incidents will likely keep happening.
