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PRESERVING HUMAN VOICES AND FACES

International Conference

Pontifical Urbaniana University

21st May 2026

 

>> The Program <<

THE PANELS

OPENING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION

• Dr. Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication

• Card. José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

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PANEL

TO BE OR TO PRETEND TO BE: SIMULATING RELATIONSHIPS AND REALITY

Session 1. AI reshaping journalism, society and community?

Moderator: Alessandro Gisotti, Vice Editorial Director, Dicastery for Communication

Discussants

• Marijana Grbeša, Professor at the University of Zagreb, 

• Vineet Khosla, Chief Technology Officer, The Washington Post.

• Kashmir Hill, Tech reporter, The New York Times.

• Eli Pariser, Co-director, New_ Public.

 

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PANEL: A POSSIBLE ALLIANCE

Moderators: Fr. Paolo Benanti, Professor, Luiss–Guido Carli University

and Sr. Nina Krapić, Vice Director, Holy See Press Office, Dicastery

for Communication

Discussants

• Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of the Center for Human Technology.

• Andrew Jenks, Director of Media Provenance of Microsoft,

Chairperson of Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

• Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning,

University of Cambridge; Chief Scientist for Trent.AI.

• Winifred Mitchell Baker, Co-founder of the Mozilla Project and

the Mozilla Foundation.

Session 2. Are AI models intensifying social inequalities and injustices?

Moderator: Nataša Govekar, Theological–Pastoral Director, Dicastery for Communication

Discussants

• Joy Buolamwini, PhD, Founder of the Algorithmic Justice league, Inaugural Accelerator Fellow at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI.

• Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Full professor, Department of Media and Digital Culture, Tecnológico de Monterrey.

• Benjamin Rosman, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

 

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PANEL: DO NOT RENOUNCE YOUR ABILITY TO THINK

Moderator: Mons. Paul Tighe, Secretary, Dicastery for Culture and Education

Discussants

• Rayén Condeza Dall’Orso, Ph.D, Professor at the Faculty of Communications, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. 

• Divina Frau–Meigs, Professor Emerita, Media Sociologist, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France; UNESCO CHAIR Savoir Devenir.

• Adeline Hulin, Head of Unit for Media and Information Literacy and Digital Competencies at UNESCO.

• Justin Kings, Head of EBU Academy (European Broadcasting Union).

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