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Notre Dame’s $50M grant aims to bring faith-based ethics to AI future in big way
January 13, 2026
So who is discussing guardrails and fail-safes to keep humans in control? Who is having the conversations concerning how AI will impact people, and just what an AI future should look like for humanity? One answer: The University of Notre Dame, which recently received from the Lilly Endowment a $50.8 million grant — the largest given by a private foundation in the school’s history — to support the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics launched in September 2025.
Meghan Sullivan, founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and DELTA, said that the grant comes at a key time in the development of AI.
The Conversation
3 ways US actions in Venezuela violated international law
January 13, 2026
The Conversation asked Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame, to explain what about recent actions by the U.S. violate international law and why that matters.
OSV News
Notre Dame reports success of guaranteed basic income program – will it go national?
January 13, 2026
"In those 12 months when they were receiving cash from the program, people were less likely to be food insecure," Patrick Turner, an assistant professor of economics at Notre Dame, and a LEO researcher, told OSV News.
The Boston Globe
OPINION: The world is getting hotter. Pessimism may be our only hope.
January 12, 2026
Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative.
The Conversation
3 ways the US broke international law in Venezuela
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January 08, 2026
Mary Ellen O'Connell, professor of law and international peace studies, University of Notre Dame
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