Abstract
The recent emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate digital images from descriptive text prompts has taken the creative world by storm, with AI art generators like _DALL-E 2, MidJourney, NightCafé,_ and others. Notwithstanding ethical considerations, the complex relationship between AI art, humanity, aesthetics, and the Divine demands a theological response. Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was a leading German Roman Catholic philosopher. His literary work focused on ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, and aesthetics. It is his theological reflection on aesthetics that will provide us with wisdom and guidance as we navigate, evaluate, and critique AI-generated art. This paper begins by exploring the essence of AI-generated art and how it works. Von Hildebrand and his literary work are introduced, which brings us to an exposition of his philosophical theology on aesthetics, outlining his most significant and pertinent points. In turn, this provides us with a theological apparatus to evaluate AI-generated art.
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