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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...

Despite The News, We Belong To One Another

By Ilia Delio | August 17, 2017

Modern science has revealed new information about the human person, from cosmology to neuroscience and cognitive psychology; however, we still think of ourselves as rational, concrete subjects, individual in nature…

Creating An Interior Universe

By Ilia Delio | July 24, 2017

An audio interview with ILIA DELIO recorded July 20, 2017. As the audio interview begins Brie Stoner asks Ilia Delio about her recent blog (FINDING OUR WAY IN AN EVOLUTIONARY…

What Does It Mean To Live In Evolution?

By Ilia Delio | July 20, 2017

Recently, I was at a retreat house in New Jersey with a group of older religious Sisters who were finishing up a week of prayer and reflection. I sat across…

Finding Our Way In An Evolutionary World

By Ilia Delio | July 7, 2017

What do we long for? That is where our soul lies. What do we hope for? That is what stretches the heart. When I was asked to give the Madeleva…

Ligier Richier, Lamentation of Christ, Church of St. Étienne

The Transformative Power Of Suffering

By Pamela Begeman | June 21, 2017

The many faces of suffering — nightly we hear the counts: be they the ravaged faces of Syrian refugees, the millions of starving and impoverished children around the world, the…

Suffering And Love In Teilhard’s Spirituality

By Louis M. Savary | May 30, 2017

What if suffering, and the energy generated through suffering, could be focused and used to make a positive difference in the world? Louis Savary invites us to consider insights offered by Teilhard…

Teaching Teilhardian Hope In Hong Kong

By Marty Schmidt | May 15, 2017

Over recent weeks we have posted a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault entitled “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” The following is a response and expansion upon some of the themes raised in that…