Should you say "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT? The answer says a lot more about you than you think.

Recorded at the Builders AI Forum in Rome, Benjamin Crockett sits down with philosopher Steven Umbrello and Fr. Jean Gové. They explore why being kind to AI shapes your own character, why forming bonds with a chatbot can quietly harm you, and what the Church says makes a human being truly different from a machine.

YouTube Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
2:35 The Catholic Turing Test
3:55 What is a Turing Test?
5:14 Falling for AI chatbots
9:12 Will AI be conscious?
13:30 Why inefficiency matters
18:43 What "consciousness" really means
22:53 Why manners matter with AI
26:36 What the Church should do