Three Perspectives on Catholic Social Teaching and Implications for Technology

摘要

In this article we view Catholic Social Teaching (CST) in the larger context of history, culture, philosophy and theology, and social services, and consider three perspectives on its modern instantiation: social science and economics, modal and nonmonotonic logics, and second-order cybernetics. We then apply those perspectives to consider questions of interest in the fields of artificial intelligence & robotics, ethics in knowledge-based industries including software engineering, and issues of security & intellectual property. In each of these, there are potential conflicts between the rights and dignity of differing individuals and groups.