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.

• What is the Turing Test?
• The "smooth pebble" idea: how we are shaped by rubbing up against other people
• Why a little "inefficiency" (cooking, talking, wasting time well) is good for the soul
• Whether a machine could ever truly be conscious
• What the Church means by a "human being," and why a machine can't match it
• What the Church should do next, inside and out