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Intelligence Was Never the Point: Interior to Interiority in the Age of AI

By Ilia Delio | August 5, 2026

From where I stand, we are having the wrong argument about artificial intelligence.The debate almost always runs along one axis. Can machines think? And if they can, what is left that belongs to us alone? For a long time, we did not have to ask the deeper question, because we had a comfortable answer to the surface one. We identified humanity with a set of distinctive capacities—reason, language, creativity, symbolic intelligence—and took these to define what it meant to be human. As long as those capacities remained uniquely ours, the question of personhood could stay politely closed. Intelligence seemed measure enough of human uniqueness.Artificial intelligence has unsettled that confidence. Machines now compose music, generate language, recognize patterns, and perform reasoning...

The Omega Challenge: Consciousness and personal identity

By Ilia Delio | July 20, 2019

The Omega Challenge: In a recent post Ilia answers a question about consciousness and personal identity in the perspective of human immortality. On your own or as a group we…

Evolution is our fundamental reality

By Ilia Delio | July 15, 2019

We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators,…

The Omega Challenge

By Ilia Delio | July 9, 2019

The Omega Challenge: In a recent letter to the Omega community, Ilia challenged us all with questions that center on one big question: Who and What is God? Please read her…

Thank you and Take the Omega Challenge

By Ilia Delio | July 9, 2019

Dear Friends of the Omega Center I want to extend a deep, heartfelt “thank you” to every person who responded to our June donation drive. Your commitment to the Omega…

Theology Needs Radical Revisioning

By Ilia Delio | July 5, 2019

In August 2018, the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg boldly went on a school strike to oppose climate change and inspired thousands of youth around the world to do the…

The Rainbow of Pride

By Ilia Delio | June 10, 2019

This month we celebrate the gift of life in its many colors, which holds great significance for the LGTBQ community. For years, women and men who were not heterosexual had…

Ilia Delio Changed My Life and Can Change Yours

By Gregory Hansell | June 6, 2019

God works in mysterious ways, and as any reader of Teilhard and Ilia Delio knows, that includes the recommendation algorithms of Amazon.com. It was on that website, in the “Books…

Love Out of Darkness

By Ilia Delio | May 19, 2019

Question: How do we know if our thinking and doing is coming from the ground of love? I can feel this ground in silence but it is harder in the…

From the Ritiro Omega Discussion Group

By Sr Paula Scraba | May 10, 2019

Theistic Evolution: A New Religious Story by Sr. Paula Scraba, OSF and the Allegany Franciscan Sisters from the Ritiro Omega Group The discussion opened around the question, “How can the…