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A day devoted to the irreducibly, inalienably human, with @DrIainMcGilchrist and @JonathanPageau.
Tickets are limited. Register here: https://www.ralston.ac/events/ai-and-the-battle-for-the-soul
AI technology is radically reshaping the conditions of human life, the work we do, and our modes of social organization. It is already transforming how we know, how we remember, and how we perceive ourselves as free conscious agents.
AI is being developed to simulate human intelligence and human interactions, simultaneously forcing us to ask fundamental questions about who we are, what we care about, and why we do things. And yet, we lack a clear understanding of the very qualities we are attempting to reproduce in these powerful machines. We lack this, in part, because of a still much larger problem: we have lost sight of human nature itself, and with it the conditions of human actualization: that is, we have lost sight of the only means according to which these problems can be understood and answered.
The purpose of this gathering is collectively to experience and explore insight into questions of intelligence, attention, and agency – that is, into the human soul and the conditions on which the realization of human potential depends – to reflect on how best to protect a fully human future amidst the revolution of artificial intelligence.
A day devoted to the irreducibly, inalienably human, with @DrIainMcGilchrist and @JonathanPageau.
Tickets are limited. Register here: https://www.ralston.ac/events/ai-and-the-battle-for-the-soul
AI technology is radically reshaping the conditions of human life, the work we do, and our modes of social organization. It is already transforming how we know, how we remember, and how we perceive ourselves as free conscious agents.
AI is being developed to simulate human intelligence and human interactions, simultaneously forcing us to ask fundamental questions about who we are, what we care about, and why we do things. And yet, we lack a clear understanding of the very qualities we are attempting to reproduce in these powerful machines. We lack this, in part, because of a still much larger problem: we have lost sight of human nature itself, and with it the conditions of human actualization: that is, we have lost sight of the only means according to which these problems can be understood and answered.
The purpose of this gathering is collectively to experience and explore insight into questions of intelligence, attention, and agency – that is, into the human soul and the conditions on which the realization of human potential depends – to reflect on how best to protect a fully human future amidst the revolution of artificial intelligence.
