In The News: President Passerini on Jesuit Leadership in AI and Education

Artificial Intelligence is here and President Katia Passerini is proud that Gonzaga University is willing to be a Jesuit leader in the evolving space. Writing for the Washington State Standard, she shared that the University has taken serious strides with introducing AI to Gonzaga and equipping students with tools to work alongside it.

“Gonzaga embedded AI literacy across disciplines so that engineers, nurses, business leaders and humanities scholars alike graduate with both technical fluency and ethical discernment,” she wrote.

She described Gonzaga’s outlook on the future of AI as something that, when used correctly, can benefit and uplift human beings, rather than displacing them. Gonzaga’s Institute for Informatics and Applied Technology launched in 2024, bringing data, ideas, innovation and people together to better serve humanity.

“The question before us is not whether machines will grow more capable,” she shared. “They will. The question is whether we will grow wiser.”

Read the full article written by President Passerini and learn more about the ways Gonzaga is taking a humanistic approach to AI.