The Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing: Keynote on the DELTA Framework

The Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing brought together a dynamic network of scholars, faith leaders, technologists, journalists, and policymakers who believe in the enduring relevance of Christian ethical thought in a world of powerful AI. Featuring keynote sessions, training workshops, collaborative sessions, technology showcases, and time for personal prayer and communal worship, the Summit created opportunities for participants to create impactful, public-reaching projects while deepening their own faith through spiritually-centered interactions with others.

The livestream of the opening keynote for the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith, and Human Flourishing, was delivered by Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy, and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. provided the introduction. The keynote introduced the DELTA framework, a faith-informed approach to conversations about AI that is rooted in Christian values — dignity, embodiment, love, transcendence, and agency. This event was recorded on September 23, 2025.

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Speaker:

Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as director of the University-wide Ethics Initiative and is the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. The hub for University research and teaching in ethics, the Institute includes the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C, Center for Virtue Ethics, the Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab, and a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation focused on developing the next generation of courses on human flourishing, as well as a robust slate of highly competitive fellowships and programming. Sullivan is deeply interested in the ways philosophy contributes to the good life and the best methods for promoting philosophical thought. Time Biases, her 2018 book with Oxford University Press, offers philosophical guidance about how to navigate the puzzles that the passage of time poses to rational planning. In 2022, Sullivan published The Good Life Method with Penguin Press (co-authored with her teaching collaborator Paul Blaschko) based on a wildly popular introductory philosophy course she developed at Notre Dame called “God and the Good Life.” She is working on a new book about the role of unconditional love in moral lives, and is directing a major grant project to expand the love ethic. She will be a featured speaker at the 2025 TED Next Conference. Sullivan is a former coeditor (2021–2024) for Nous, a top philosophy journal. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia (B.A.: Philosophy and Politics, Highest Distinction), Oxford (B.Phil: Philosophy), and Rutgers (Ph.D.: Philosophy), and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (Balliol College).