Religion’s most important contribution to the developing field of artificial intelligence could be to shoot down grandiose dreams of super-intelligent robots walking among us or humans transcending their bodies. That was the view of a panel of academics and who discussed the interface between faith and AI during a Religion Media Centre briefing.
Tim Wyatt hosted with guests:
- Laura Janner-Klausner, former senior rabbi to Reform Judaism
- Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge
- Nicoleta Acatrinei, theologian and economist focusing on faith, work and AI at Princeton University
- Yaqub Chaudhary, independent scholar specialising in AI and Islam
- Nathan Mladin, senior researcher at Theos, specialising in AI
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“AI alongside religion looks really, really interesting, because you can accelerate out of these naïve and fairly stupid ideas, because you can say, well, actually culture has done them has done them in the context of God.”
-Professor Neil Lawrence
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