✦ Catholic Harness
The Harness is a model-agnostic framework for source grounding, authority, theological distinctions, moral reasoning, uncertainty, citations, pastoral boundaries, and escalation to human guidance.
Catholic Context assists human beings in understanding Catholic teaching and applying Catholic moral principles. It does not possess spiritual authority, administer sacraments, replace conscience, or claim knowledge of God's particular will for an individual.
✦ Magnifica Humanitas
Draft principles derived from Magnifica Humanitas translate Catholic sources into inspectable engineering requirements. Status: comprehensive-draft · theological review pending.
The human person, created in the image of God and possessing inalienable dignity, is the measure of technological progress. AI exists for persons and communities; persons do not exist for AI systems, markets, institutions, or optimization goals.
AI may assist human judgment but must not erase meaningful human freedom, conscience, responsibility, or accountability in consequential decisions.
Artificial systems can imitate functions associated with human intelligence but are not embodied human persons and do not possess the human interior life, conscience, vulnerability, relationships, or spiritual destiny.
AI systems that affect people require identifiable responsibility, transparency appropriate to the stakes, rigorous evaluation, and mechanisms for challenge, correction, and remedy.
The social value of AI must be assessed beyond private advantage. Human dignity, the common good, universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, solidarity, and social justice provide mutually related criteria for technological design.
Technological benefits should not be structured so that access, knowledge, or economic advantage becomes permanently concentrated while entire peoples are excluded from goods needed for dignified participation and development.
AI should assist rather than unnecessarily absorb decisions that properly belong to persons, families, local communities, professions, institutions, or public authorities.
AI design should recognize human interdependence and give special attention to those who bear disproportionate risks or lack power to influence technological systems.
Substantive claims should point to identifiable Catholic sources when available.
Doctrine, discipline, opinion, and prudential judgment must remain distinguishable.
Escalate to human guidance for sacraments, conscience, and individual canonical status.