By Judie Brown
In the Gospel of John, Christ prepared for His Ascension by praying to God, His Father, regarding His disciples, “May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one.”
This image of being one with God through the suffering, death, and resurrection of His Son is an encouragement in a world overrun with devastating actions, programs, and all manner of evil, among which we find so-called artificial intelligence, or as I prefer to call it, Rob the Robot on steroids. While that character entertained children, the current robotic techniques employed by AI via chatbot function with deadly precision, especially when it comes to life-and-death situations.
This begs the question: Is the specter of alternative methods of contemplation taking us to a point where the woman seeking to abort her child by using the US mail is left literally holding the bag? Consider what Dr. Ingrid Skop writes, “Mail order delivery may place twelve misoprostol tablets on a woman’s doorstep, leaving her to ‘self-manage’ how to use them, and guess whether her horrifying bleeding or severe pain necessitates ER evaluation, or is merely an expected side effect of the drug.”
What level of intelligence does it take to realize that this is a very bad idea? Writer Christopher Reilly opines,
Many of the effects of AI technology are very concerning. Pro-abortion groups are developing and publicizing AI chatbots that guide women through a self-administered abortion. AI-enhanced, pre-implantation genetic testing of unborn children will propel increased use of such probabilistic estimates of inherited conditions to screen out and discard “unhealthy” human embryos during IVF procedures as well as amplify commercial efforts to sell eugenic hand-picking according to intellectual, athletic, and aesthetic traits. The accurate presentation of pro-life principles and arguments to the public is unlikely when accessing commonly used AI models, especially those that trend toward a socially liberal perspective. Further, the U.S. Congress held dramatic hearings in September 2025 to highlight the rise of suicides and self-harming by children exposed to interactions with AI chatbots, and AI-generated or manipulated images are fueling an explosion of digital pornography, including images of children.
It is well past time to put the brakes on, assess the precipice on which society hovers, and ask ourselves how we arrived here. We might begin with a query about the dignity of the human person as viewed through the lens of most people in 2026.
It might surprise you to learn that 60 percent of those interviewed by Pew Research believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while a stunning 38 percent do not. In another survey we learn that “Americans are more likely than people in other countries surveyed in 2025 to question the morality of their fellow countrymen.”
While the pot is calling the kettle black, more babies are dying and more women are being hormonally altered by contraceptive chemicals, but fewer are seeing the evidence that undermines their own practices. Human intelligence enables individuals to think for themselves. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “God speaks to man through the visible creation. The material cosmos is so presented to man’s intelligence that he can read there traces of its Creator. Light and darkness, wind and fire, water and earth, the tree and its fruit speak of God and symbolize both his greatness and his nearness.”
Now more than ever, it is crucial that human beings think for themselves, not rely on robots, and instead rely on the Ten Commandments.
AI is designed for machines, but our superior human intelligence—a gift from God Himself—provides each of us with the way to salvation, if we choose to follow it.