How does the UST's TeachOnline office aligns (or not) with the contents of this encyclical.

In alignment with our Catholic University's mission of goodness, knowledge and discipline; first, we've worked very hard to understand how artificial intelligence works, the best approach for artificial intelligence and, what it can and cannot do. As instructional designers we have an ethical and moral code to do no harm to our students; the creation or purveying of false information would be a moral and intellectual harm; so, to the best of our abilities, we seek to only generate accurate and factual information with artificial intelligence tools. We do this by using existing documents, meeting transcripts, and other human-generated artifacts as part of context engineering for the prompts we are creating.

Additionally, on the topic of goodness, and in alignment with the ethical quandaries of using artificial intelligence tools that can be connected to "long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure, and above all people". That is, tools that are known to be exploitative to the environment and hurt neighboring people, –specially marginalized communities– (xAI/Grok), disregard the subsidiarity of local communities (Meta AI), and known for harming adult and children with its ability to convince them of false and violent informaton (ChatGPT); our chosen tools are Anthropic's Claude Sonnet and Opus models. That isn't to say that Anthropic is guiltless. However, it continues to stand above all other companies as being the most ethical and conscientious artificial intelligence lab – although that is not saying much, Claude has been used as a hacking tool, and it was used in Pentagon for weapon and operation planning; prior to its designation as a national security risk, ironically because they sought to enact a "red line" (that is disarm) on their AI being used on weapon systems and mass surveillance.

As educators and instructional designers, we welcome the challenge to rethink "the organization of schools, physical spaces, evaluation methods and the role of teachers themselves... promote an authentically integral education that addresses every dimension of the person." To do this, we follow our scientific and ethical practices of our profession in the development of courses that have measurable outcomes, accurate, engaging, collaborative, applicable to real life, that hopefully lead to reflection and contemplation. Additionally, our role as educators helps "disarm" AI from its worst possible uses, and we can further assist by beating "swords into ploughshares" by helping our students understand the ethical and moral boundaries of any technological use and implement it in ways that aid humanity. We respect that our faculty engage in the work of Nehemiah, by helping to build the wall of Jerusalem; by engaging in one of the most charitable acts in humanity, that of giving away and imparting their knowledge unto the future generation.

WIP!!!!