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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...

Politics and the Power of Love

By Ilia Delio | November 11, 2022

Politics shape human community. Our political decisions reflect our sense of who we are and what we want. We vote as citizens of a common household, members of a society…

Special Event: Merton and Delio

By WISR Institute | November 3, 2022

Alan Kolp, from the Thomas Merton Center hosts Partners in the General Dance of the Spirit: Thomas Merton and Ilia Delio Evolving into Grandeur of God November 8, 2022 at…

Soul Brothers?

By Hilda Geraghty | October 19, 2022

By Hilda Geraghty Soul Brothers: St. Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ, Apostle to the ‘Gentiles’ of Modernity Why would one dare to put a…

A Cosmotheandric Language of Belonging

By Emily DeMoor | October 19, 2022

It is no secret that I love England and greatly look forward to my next visit, whenever that may be. I am often charmed by the names of English towns…

Transformation or Self-Inflation? The Challenge of Spirituality Today

By Ilia Delio | October 12, 2022

Spirituality has exploded in the twenty-first century and spiritual paths are everywhere. Contemplative practices, spirituality groups, Eastern and Western paths of mysticism, all abound across the infinite terrain of cyberspace. …

The Death of God and the Rebirth of God

By Ilia Delio | September 16, 2022

On June 12, 1946, Teilhard jotted down a short sentence in a diary that read: “The death of God (Nietzsche) and the rebirth of God (Omega).” Ursula King writes: “He…

Tomatillos, Radical Openness and Love

By Emily DeMoor | September 16, 2022

This summer we decided to grow tomatillos in our garden; something we had not done before, although I had seen volunteer tomatillos growing by a riverbank years ago and was…

September Reflection: An Open Universe

By WISR Institute | September 16, 2022

By Jillian Langford As summer draws to a close, I am already counting down the days to October. And no, not just because I am excited about the changing leaves…