AI and Catholicism

I am no Expert, but I learned a lot prepping a talk I gave at a Canon Law Conference in Syracuse, NY last month.  But I do think I would qualify as an “armchair expert”. For the non-old school among us, that’s someone who knows enough to hold up their end of a conversation at a cocktail party or family get together.

If you are cool enough to tune in every week to the Crux podcast by my favorite geek, John Allen, then you already know about Magesterium AI. 

I am amazed at all of the different iterations in book titles for AI.  The range goes from “AI for Beginners” to “AI for Teachers” to “AI for Everyone”, and everything in between.  Amazon has some very strange items when you search “AI for Catholicism”.  Save a lot of time and just go to Magesterium.AI.  If for no other reason than to stop John Allen from gushing over it every single week!

Magesterium AI describes itself this way:

Magisterium AI is a dataset and algorithm that aims to make Catholic teaching and insight accessible to anyone in the world. It can answer questions, provide context, generate reflections and summarize documents in multiple languages.

Magesterium.AI was founded by Longbeard, and it’s owner, Mathew Sanders, makes a very good case for Magesterium. AI.  “We are trying to build the most Catholic AI that we could.”  I don’t think anyone can do better judging from its start to date.  Magesterium AI’s goal is to be similar to the “Google Books platform for accessing  theological and philosophical works.”  Throw in the Code of Canon Law and the Decretals and all Decreta… and I’m in heaven on earth. (and my “Simple Dictionary of Canon Law, 2nd Edition).

Using Magesterim.AI is free up to sixty questions a week.  If you want more, to be what they call a PRO,  it is an $8.99 a month subscription.  In light of other AI platforms, that’s a steal.

Magesterium.AI  is much more current than other AI sites that answer (some incorrectly) questions about Catholicism because it deals with Catholicism.  It’s not trying to cater to anyone’s viewpoints or history or literature, but ours.  Because of that, it is much more accurate in Catholic information.  I promise, they won’t tell you that it is ok to baptize with Gatorade! (one AI site actually did that!)

There are a couple of other AI platforms that claim to be Catholic experts, but they don’t come close to AI in accuracy. It also doesn’t beg for money at every click.  For my research, I donated to one to get it to stop begging, and guess what, it didn’t.  I don’t want to single out the ones inferior to Magesterium, because I don’t want to confuse you, or give them clicks.  Magesterium is so ahead of them all that if you want to see what they have added lately, go to their dashboard and click on the Changelog.  But be forewarned, I got happily lost in there for hours.