Q416 – What practical warnings or guardrails should the faithful keep in mind when using AI like ChatGPT?

Interview Organization: Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima

Interviewer Name: Christopher P. Wendt

Date: January 13, 2026

Bishop Schneider warns that reliance on artificial intelligence threatens human dignity because AI lacks personality. He says AI may assist with limited tasks like translations or finding texts, but must not replace personal thinking, reflection, and independent intellectual effort, since dependence risks weakening human intelligence and undermining responsible human judgment.

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Yes, it is a danger to be dependent on something that is not personal. In artificial intelligence, there is no personality, and this is not worthy of human personality. We are persons. We can think and reflect. AI can be used as a tool to help us partially, for example, in translations, or to find some texts, or to create pictures. It can be helpful in this way, but it must not interfere with the process of our thinking, which must remain independent.

The danger is that people may stop using their own intelligence and stop making the effort to think and reflect by themselves. This is the danger.

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Q416 – What practical warnings or guardrails should the faithful keep in mind when using AI like ChatGPT?

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