AI Ethics by Design

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Gain a strategic edge in the evolving AI landscape. Join Vatican AI consultant Father Paulo Benanti and CMU machine learning expert Professor Arti Singh for a high-level dialogue on innovation and human dignity. This fireside chat bridges ethics and engineering, offering essential insights for leaders committed to building responsible, human-centric technology.

The world is in a transformative era, with AI revolutionizing industries, reshaping innovation, and unlocking opportunities once thought impossible. Its vast potential inspires optimism for a future where technology drives progress across industries, governments, NGOs, and society as a whole. However, with this promise comes significant responsibility. Concerns over bias, inequitable access, safety vulnerabilities, and ethical uncertainties highlight the urgent need for a guiding framework. RISE (Responsible, Inclusive, Safe and Ethical) AI fulfills this role, ensuring that AI technologies are developed and applied responsibly, inclusively, and ethically.

The RISE AI Conference provides a unique platform to explore how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to tackle complex societal and contemporary challenges while upholding the principles of RISE. The inaugural RISE AI Conference took place from October 6-8, 2025 at the University of Notre Dame, and was hosted by the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.

For more information, please visit the RISE AI Conference website.

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Meet the Speaker: Father Paolo Benanti

Roman, born in 1973, Paolo Benanti is a Third Order Regular Franciscan – TOR – and works on ethics, bioethics and ethics of technologies. In particular, his studies focus on the management of innovation: the Internet and the impact of the Digital Age, biotechnology for human improvement and biosafety, neuroscience and neurotechnology. As he writes, “I try to focus on the ethical and anthropological significance of technology for Homo sapiens: we are a species that has inhabited the world for 70,000 years, transforming it; the human condition is a techno-human condition…” At the Pontifical Gregorian University he received his licentiate in 2008 and his doctorate in moral theology in 2012. The doctoral dissertation entitled “The Cyborg. Body and Corporeality in the Age of the Posthuman” won the Belarmino – Vedovato Prize.

Father Benanti is an associate professor at the LUISS University. He is also a Vatican Consultant on AI, President of Italian Government Commission on the impact of AI on media and journalism, and a lecturer and author of numerous publications about the ethical impact of AI. From 2008-2025 he was a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He works on neuroethics, ethics of technologies, artificial intelligence and the posthuman. He was part of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force to assist the Agency for Digital Italy. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life with a particular mandate for the world of artificial intelligence. In late 2018, he was selected by the Ministry of Economic Development as a member of the group of thirty experts tasked at the national level with developing the national strategy on artificial intelligence and the national strategy on shared ledger and blockchain-based technologies. In 2023 was selected by General Secretary of United Nation Guterres to be part of the group of 38 expert to develop a proposal for a global governance of the AI.

Meet the Speaker: Aarti Singh

Aarti Singh is Professor of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. She received a B.E. in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Delhi in 2001, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and 2008, respectively. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University from 2008-2009 before joining Carnegie Mellon.