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Anyone online comes into contact with Artificial Intelligence, or AI. It determines search engine results, curates what you see on social media, and guides how you click through websites. Recent refinements in AI mean that it can compose text and produce images faster, sometimes better, than humans. Chatbots are used for customer service and online diagnostic tools, and increasingly as social surrogates. The better AI mimics human activity, the more questions it raises: Is AI smarter than humans? Could it ever become human? Could it replace us? What do the advances in Artificial Intelligence mean for society, the Church, and the world?