The Saint Benedict Institute will host Dr. Jordan Joseph Wales, who is a member of the philosophy and religion faculty at Hillsdale College, for a lecture titled 亚洲色吧淲hat We Are and What We Do: Keeping Our Personhood in the Age of AI亚洲色吧� on Monday, March 10, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
A video recording of the event will be made available online afterward on .
Wales is an associate professor of theology and the John and Helen Kuczmarski Chair in Theology at Hillsdale College. His research focuses on early Christian theology as well as contemporary questions relating to theology and artificial intelligence.
As the institute describes on its website, 亚洲色吧淲e are now able to have conversations with AI apps on our smartphones that evoke from us all the empathy that adults habitually reserve for fellow human beings. For a fee, we can own the behavior of assistants and companions that feel to us like persons but (unlike pets) are entirely at our disposal. Their persuasive friendship and understanding is the service for which we pay. How can we live personally in a world of artificial intelligence?
亚洲色吧淭o answer this question, SBI is hosting Jordan Joseph Wales for a lecture on AI and theology. With assistance from Christian antiquity, he will take up four questions. First, how does an apparently personal AI work? Second, what might this entity be? Third, what might we become, owning the behavior of apparent persons? Lastly, in a society saturated by such AI tools, how might we live in such a way as to enhance rather than to erode our own humanity?亚洲色吧�
The event is co-sponsored by Markets & Morality, the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Dean of Natural and Applied Sciences, the Department of Communication, the Department of Engineering, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Religion, the Corpus Christi Foundation and Marzec Chocolates.
The Saint Benedict Institute is a ministry of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Holland. It seeks to promote and nurture intellectual work done from the heart of the Catholic Church, to foster an ecumenical community of Catholic Christians and friends committed to the renewal of culture, and to aid in the formation of intellectually and spiritually mature Christians by making available the riches of the Catholic tradition to Hope College and the wider community. More information can be found at .
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Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.