Conference Organizers:
Jennifer A. Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University
John Pittard, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Yale University
Kathryn Tanner, Frederick Marquand Professor of Theology, Yale University
Presenters:
Brian Cutter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
“AI Consciousness, Personhood, and Ensoulment”
Marius Dorobantu, Assistant Professor of Theology and Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Will God speak to intelligent robots? Why strong AI’s how is more important than its what”
Luciano Floridi, Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
“A Digital Deity: AI as the New Ultimate Other and the Emergence of Techno-Eschatology”
David Zvi Kalman, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
“Who’s Afraid of AI Personhood?”
Ted Peters, Professor Emeritus, Graduate Theological Union
“AI, IA, and the End of Humanity?”
Kathryn Reklis, Associate Professor of Modern Protestant Theology, Fordham University
“They will know you by your love for robots: technology, relationality, and the limits of humanity”
Paul Scherz, Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
“Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective”
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago
“Conscience and the Ends of Humanity: Christian Humanism and Artificial Intelligence”
Valentina Tirloni, Professor of Information Science and Communications, University of Nice
“Democracy, Politics, and AI”
Linn Tonstad, Professor of Theology, Yale University
TBD
Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego
“AI & Morally Austere Ecologies”
M. Wolff, Associate Professor of Religion, Augustana College
“Cruising Decolonial Utopias: AI Benefits and Threats, Real versus Imagined”
Graduate Panelists
Jordan Baker, M.Div. Candidate, Yale Divinity School
“Algorithmic Trust and Agential Possession”
Sean Baz-Garza, Ph.D. candidate, Baylor University
“Theology, AI, and Internal/External Goods”
Johanna Merz, Ph.D. candidate, LMU Munich
“AI, Fragility, and Creative Freedom”