The Human and the Machine: Anthropological Questions

This presentation is part of the webinar series “Artificial Intelligence: New Social and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities”

Presenter: Jordan Wales, Ph.D., Hillsdale College, MI
Wednesday, Oct. 8
7–8:15 p.m. EST via Zoom

Especially with the recent successes of generative AI, the feeling of looking in the mirror when we interact with AI raises a few questions regarding what it means: First, how does this AI work? Second, what does it accomplish – what is its intelligence in relation to ours? And third, what might we become through our interactions with it? By this investigation, we might advance a case for how to live humanely in the age of AI.

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Jordan Joseph Wales, Ph.D., is an associate professor and the John and Helen Kuczmarski Chair of theology at Hillsdale College. His scholarly work focuses on early Christianity as well as contemporary questions relating to theology and Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the AI Research Group for the Centre for Digital Culture of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See.

This is the SECOND in a series of seven presentations. Click the titles below to learn about and register for the remaining presentations.

Presentation 1: Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It’s Important
Presentation 2: The Human and the Machine: Anthropological Questions
Presentation 3: The Social Impacts of Relational AI
Presentation 4: Educating in the Age of AI
Presentation 5: AI and Ethical Questions: The Impact on Health Care
Presentation 6: Environmental Impacts of AI: Hidden Costs and Inequalities
Presentation 7: The Future of AI: Marvel, Menace, and Mystery