February 13, 2026

Library Auditorium  |  6:30 pm – 8 pm

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the human intellect is a created participation in uncreated light. Can the same be said about AI? This presentation will engage perspectives in cognitive science to answer this question. In so doing, it will distinguish the human intellect’s ability to know truth from AI’s inability to do the same.

Taylor Nutter is an assistant professor in the Theology department at Mount St. Mary’s University. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a PhD in Systematic Theology in 2021. He is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s AI research group. Currently, he is a part of the subsection of that research group that is writing a book, Education, AI, and Integral Human Development. He has a chapter on AI forthcoming with Marquette University Press: “AI and Neocolonialism: a History of the Computational Theory of the Mind” in Globalization and the New World Order, edited by Leocadie Lushombo and Joseph Ogbonnaya.

Admission is free thanks to the Mount Angel Institute. All are welcome.