Mohammed Ghaly (Islamic Bioethics & AI Ethics)

@IBioethics

Professor of Islam & Biomedical Ethics, HBKU · Director @CILE_Center · President, IIBA · Co-Chair, GAAIE · Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Islamic Ethics

Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), Doha, Qatar linkedin.com/in/mohammed-gh… Joined October 2018

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Mohammed Ghaly (Islamic Bioethics & AI Ethics) @IBioethics Oct 20

Call for papers: what can the Islamic tradition of adab and tarbiya contribute to moral education in modern schools? @CILE_Center (@HBKU_CIS, @HBKU) invites abstracts by 15 November 2026 for a research seminar in Doha, 20–22 April 2027.

CILE call for papers: research seminar on Moral Education in Modern Schooling Systems. Seminar 20–22 April 2027. Abstracts due 15 November 2026. Travel and accommodation covered. Submissions in English or Arabic. Scopus-indexed, open-access publication in CILE’s flagship journal and book series. Details at cilecenter.org.

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Students and early-career researchers: apply by 1 December 2026 for the @CILE_Center Winter School (@HBKU_CIS, @HBKU), with the International Islamic Bioethics Association, held online on 11–13 January 2027 alongside our seminar on Reproductive Ethics and Kinship.

Mohammed Ghaly (Islamic Bioethics & AI Ethics) @IBioethics Nov 2

دعوة إلى تقديم أوراق بحثية: هل الحياة الاقتصادية ميدان للتنافس، أم للأمانة والاستخلاف؟
يعقد مركز دراسات التشريع الإسلامي والأخلاق، @CILE_Center، ندوة بعنوان "الرؤى الكونية الاقتصادية والأخلاق في الفكر الإسلامي"، الدوحة، 14–16 سبتمبر 2027. تُقبل الملخصات حتى 31 ديسمبر 2026.

Mohammed Ghaly (Islamic Bioethics & AI Ethics) @IBioethics Nov 1

I agree: machines are tools, not persons. This is the dominant view, close to a soft consensus though not unanimity, as @UNESCO's Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (2021) shows: "AI systems should not be given legal personality themselves."

Pope Leo XIV Verified account @Pontifex Oct 30

Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.
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Mohammed Ghaly (Islamic Bioethics & AI Ethics) @IBioethics Oct 31

The Islamic tradition draws a similar line. Classical scholars divided creatures into ensouled and non-ensouled beings; even al-Jazari (d. 1206), who built humanoid automata, called them tools (ala). I trace this in my article on AI and work ethics:
doi.org/10.1007/s10892…

link.springer.com What Makes Work “Good” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Islamic Perspectives on AI-Med... The Journal of Ethics - Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly creeping into the work sphere, thereby gradually questioning and/or disturbing the long-established moral concepts...

Catholic Sat Verified account @CatholicSat Oct 30

Pope Leo XIV says that AI are tools and denounces those who say that AI should have rights and legal personhood status:

“Machines are tools, not persons. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity. “

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