What AI Gives Back I took typing in high school. That would hardly seem worth remembering except that I was a young woman headed into engineering at a time when typing still carried the distinct aroma of secretarial work. It was something women learned because women became secretaries. I had no intention of becoming a…
Karen’s Voice Last time we left Catherine in the kitchen. She had refused the marriage arranged for her. We said the white robe and the black cape were coming. They come. She is clothed in the Dominican habit at San Domenico, and then she walks back down the hill to Fontebranda. Same house. Same Lapa….
Does Claude earn his keep? That sentence has a household meaning here. My son uses it about himself, about his dog, about nearly everything that takes up room in our life. Penny the cat earns her keep. The wild birds we feed earn theirs. Capability is not a character reference. It is whether you justify…
The Formed Mind in the Age of AI An EWTN News article on how Catholic colleges are responding to artificial intelligence caught my attention recently.¹ The approaches vary. Ave Maria University does not have a university-wide AI ban, but its academic honor code prohibits generative AI in any part of the writing process and in…
Karen’s Voice I have lived with Catherine of Siena for a long time. She is my patroness. I have studied The Dialogue for years.1 In the Jubilee of 2000 I went to Siena and venerated her relics at San Domenico. I thought I knew her. Then I sat down with Sigrid Undset. Undset approaches Catherine…
I had already been getting irritated with Claude before Pete Hegseth and Anthropic were in the same sentence in my head. I am a paying Claude customer, and I had learned that I had to think about when I could use him. Could I give him substantial work in the afternoon, or did I need…