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AI – Ethical and Religious Perspectives

Will advances in AI serve to enhance or diminish our moral and spiritual selves?
Will these advances serve to create better or worse societies?

Experts from AI, computer science, psychology, engineering, philosophy and theology discuss ethical and religious perspectives of Artificial Intelligence.

Read the report (PDF)

]]> Humans through the AI looking Glass – Short Film /humans-through-the-ai-looking-glass/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:35:10 +0000 https://science-human.org/?p=2968

In this short film, an AI expert, a philosopher, psychologist, theologian, and neuroscientist discuss how AI works so well as a mirror for humans.

 

]]> The Path to Artificial Consciousness – Short Film /the-path-to-artificial-consciousness/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:40:07 +0000 https://science-human.org/?p=2978

In this short film, an AI expert, a philosopher, psychologist, theologian, and neuroscientist discuss how AI works so well as a mirror for humans.

]]> What is the Singularity? – Short Film /what-is-the-singularity/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:03:00 +0000 https://science-human.org/?p=2982

Watch our short film where AI experts Murray Shanahan of DeepMind and Anders Sandberg of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, give their answers to the question: What is the Singularity?

]]> AI in Science Fiction Film and Literature – Short Film /ai-in-science-fiction-short-documentary/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:30:29 +0000 http://tommustester.wpengine.com/?p=27

SHDP’s short documentary film on AI in Sci-Fi Film and Literature, the subject of a conference at Jesus College, Cambridge. AI experts, Sci-Fi authors and film makers discuss how Sci-Fi addresses the big questions posed by AI, and the roles both the AI and Sci-Fi communities can play in communicating and discussing the hopes and fears of Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence in Sci Fi Film and Literature

Science Fiction film and literary fictions have been a forum for the drama of ideas that circulate around AI and its future, not least important ethical questions. At many stages we find fiction in all its forms driving ideas in AI and vice-versa. Crucially, we find the relationship between AI developments and our hopes, fears and ambitions, worked out imaginatively through a variety of stories. In this short film, Artificial Intelligence experts, Science Fiction (SF) authors, technology experts, and scholars of literature discuss these fascinating ideas and ask: what can we learn about ourselves in relation to AI by exploring these narratives?

This film is based on ideas discussed at the Science & Human Dimension Project’s (SHDP) AI and the Future of Humanity Project conference ‘AI in Sci Fi Film and Literature’ at Jesus College, Cambridge. We are grateful to Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) for their funding of this project. This short film was made by SHDP in collaboration with Colin Ramsay of Little Dragon Films.

 

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