André Escaleira Jr. is managing editor of Denver Catholic and El Pueblo Católico, the English- and Spanish-language news outlets of the Archdiocese of Denver.
Fr. Brendan McGuire is pastor of St. Simon Parish in Los Altos, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley, and co-founder of the Institute for Technology, Ethics and Culture (ITEC), a partnership between Santa Clara University and the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education. A former technology executive ordained in 2000 for the Diocese of San José, California, he is the author of From Here to Eternity and The Soul of AI: A Priest, an Algorithm, and the Search for Wisdom.
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