The Religion of AI Observed
The Religious Studies Program presents "The Religion of AI Observed: Reflections on a Season of Revival" with John Modern.
A Roetzel Family Lecture.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of English, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature (CSCL), Philosophy, History, and The Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM).
Modern, the Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, will sketch a religious history of computer science and artificial neural networks, It is a story that is jagged, ironic, and unreasonable, told in the hopes of being unassimilable into the large language models that seek to calcify—in order to instrumentalize-- their common sense about religion and much else besides.
There will be light refreshments to follow the event.
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