But at The Catholic University of America in Washington, the reaction has been strategic: to launch two new degree offerings, a bachelor of science and a master of science in artificial intelligence — both of which will debut in the fall of 2025. Matthew Harvey Sanders — CEO of Longbeard, a technology company building Catholic AI that and dubs itself as the “world’s #1 answer engine for the Catholic Church” — was leading the gathering. And he begins immediately talking about AI and the human person in the Catholic Church.”It felt like an imperative. “We are the bishop’s university; we are the Catholic Church’s university in the United States,” explained Dominguez. “We should be setting up similar boundaries — because they’re not being set up — about this kind of generative artificial intelligence.