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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a transformative technology across Australia’s healthcare system. This paper calls for a multi-faceted approach to AI in the care economy that is grounded in Catholic principles and ethical standards, arguing that:
- AI is “a profoundly human reality” and must always be directed toward the flourishing of the human person, judged not by profit or efficiency alone, but by whether it serves the common good.
- it must always be human intelligence, with its conscience and freedom, that guides technical innovations and responsibly determines their use.
- the therapeutic relationship must remain a moral encounter between persons.
- the benefits of AI should be justly distributed across the care economy, with a preferential concern for those at most risk of exclusion.
