The Institute for Religion and Science is sponsoring a series of lectures dealing with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the perspective of science and religion. Speakers include Philip Hefner, PhD, Noreen Herzfeld, PhD, and Anne Foerst, ThD. Each event is free and open to the public and will be held online beginning at 7pm ET.
“The Greatest Challenge: The Created Co-Creator Creates a Co-Creator”
With Philip Hefner, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology
Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
January 25, 2023
Online at 7:00 – 8:30pm
Our technology began as toolmaking even when it turned to bioengineering and robotics. That is, it emerged and evolved to perform tasks for us. Recent developments suggest that it is entering a phase in which it is on its way to creating creatures that are in fact functioning life and functioning human life. With its science and technology, the created co-creator is embarking on the challenge of creating its own co-creator.
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Chestnut Hill College's Institute for Reliigion and Science is committed to nurturing the constructive engagement of Religion/Spirituality and Science/Technology, and to promoting a dialogue that is interfaith and multi-science. It aims to stimulate interdisciplinary thinking and discussion in contemporary society and to foster encounters of Religion with Science by means of lectures, conferences, workshops, dialogue groups, as well as activities that support a more integrated approach to the teaching of religion and science.
Lectures are free and open to the public, though registration is required. Lectures for the spring are listed below:
The Greatest Challenge: The Created Co-Creator Createsa Co-Creator - 1/25
Alexa, Do You Love Me? AI and Authentic Relationship - 2/28
Can AI Systems be Persons? - 3/21
