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Going Deeper
AI Is a Tool, Superintelligence Is Fiction
Alexander Fink highlights 5 theses to guide our understanding of AI and its place in our world.
Alexander Fink
September 27, 2022
6
min read
Book Reviews
The Burnout Society: Why so tired?
Being tired is not the problem; the problem is that the kind of tiredness that our society brews is one of exhaustion.
Adrian Petrice
September 2, 2022
4
min read
Book Reviews
The Burnout Society: scattered and bored
Han writes: "Multitasking is commonplace among wild animals. It is an attentive technique indispensable for survival in the wilderness. That is why animals are incapable of contemplative immersion.â
Adrian Petrice
September 2, 2022
4
min read
Going Deeper
A Move From Subject to Project
As the digital is a medium of projection, âpeople no longer consider themselves subjects that are cast under a general law but as self-designingâself-casting and, indeed, self-optimizingâprojectsâ.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
8
min read
Going Deeper
From the Hand to the Finger
'Homo digitalis' uses his finger (his digit) to interact with the world. Above all, the finger counts. Either he is always counting and calculating, or else he is always being counted and calculated.
Adrian Petrice
June 22, 2021
4
min read
Going Deeper
Homo Digitalis, and the Flight Into the Image
Social media is a medium of immediate presence. As representation is giving way to online presence, the swarm enters, dissolving old limitations at its own peril.
Adrian Petrice
June 22, 2021
6
min read
Going Deeper
In the Swarm. Outrage Society.
Byung-Chul Han, the Korean-German thinker, offers us a stark contrast: pursue the fleeting outrage that is amplified online, at the peril of our democracy or re-integrate discourse, urgently.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
6
min read
Saturday Night Live
Presentation by Dr Peter Saunders on Covid situation November 2020. Followed by a panel show with Ross Hendry, Mark Meynell and Lea Köves moderated by Claudia Moneiro. Touching on wellbeing, the new n
June 22, 2021
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Video
AI Ethics Part 3 - A Christian Manifesto
Concludes the series of talks on AI ethics with 9 propositions that are suggested could form the basis of a biblically-based response to AI especially in the light of our understanding of Imago Dei.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
18
min read
Video
AI Ethics Part 2 - Key Ethical Issues & Imago Dei
Jeremy looks at the key drivers of AI ethics in the context of our increasing reliance on machines and their cumulative impact on humanity and civilisation.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
21
min read
Video
AI Ethics Part 1 - Introduction
Introducing the main ethical issues surrounding current AI technology from a Christian worldview perspective, with an overview of the main modes of ethical decision making.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
24
min read
Video
AI Technology & Applications Part 3
Part 3 investigates the likelihood of Narrow AI advancing to provide the capabilities of General AI and beyond. From a series of 6 talks during a Cross-Current conference in Berlin, Nov 2018.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
23
min read
Video
AI Technology & Applications Part 2
Part 2 provides a road map of where AI is heading and discusses its limitations, the risks and the dangers of its misuse. from a series of 6 talks during a cross-current conference in Berlin, Nov 2018
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
19
min read
Video
AI Technology & Applications Part 1
Jeremy Peckham presenting some of the areas in which AI technology is being used, highlighting the current race for AI dominance as well as the significant increase in funding for AI in recent years.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
23
min read
Video
Interview with John Wyatt
Interview with Professor John Wyatt at the November 2019 Cross-Current Conference. John is a leading medical ethicist who wants to help us think biblically through current matters of life and death.
John Wyatt
June 22, 2021
17
min read
Testimony
An Astrophysicistâs Loaves of Bread and Fish
How can I, an astrophysicist, serve God through my work? It is a question that I have been thinking about since I started studying...
Anke Arentsen
June 22, 2021
3
min read
Book Reviews
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
âThe Age of Surveillance Capitalismâ is an important work: a landmark describing the massive, shadowy forces that are driving much of the Digital Revolution in the West.
Jonathan Ebsworth
June 22, 2021
11
min read
Going Deeper
Artificial Intelligence â On Personhood
A soft alarm wakes me â perfectly in sync with my circadian rhythms â and I trundle downstairs, set to face a new week. Alex notifies me of the weather, so the blinds remain closed.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
8
min read
Going Deeper
Artificial Intellingence - Ethics & Challenges
AI â or artificial intelligence â is defined as âan area of computer science that emphasises the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humansâ.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
8
min read