Artificial Intelligence and Human Desire: Can a Robot Truly Love?

About the Speaker

Sister Ilia Delio is the Joseph C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Science and religion are often thought of as mutually exclusive; however, with areas of expertise grounded in both spheres, Sr. Delio has spent her career exploring how it is possible to find a new unity and synthesis in science and religion. She is the author and editor of many books on the topic of AI and theology including Humanity on the Threshold: Religious Perspectives on Transhumanism (co-ed. with John Haugey, SJ, 2016) From Teilhard to Omega: Co-creating an Unfinished Universe (2014) and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love(2014).

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Location

Fort Howard Theater at St. Norbert

Start Date

4-16-2019 7:00 PM

Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationships. A thousand years ago, the philosophical challenge was to think nature-and ourselves in the presence of nature. Today, according to Sr. Delio, the great and the first philosophical challenge is to think technology and to think ourselves in the presence of technology. Nature creates new connections and computer technology may be described within the wider framework of relationships. In this respect, a new type of complex life system is arising whereby the human person is not an autonomous subject over and against the machine and the machine is not an autonomous entity over and against the human person. Rather person and machine are interrelated and form a larger system of creative life. Using Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of love at the heart of the cosmos, Sr. Delio will show why AI is consonant with a metaphysics of love and Christogenesis.

Ilia Delio O.S.F.

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Apr 16th, 7:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence and Human Desire: Can a Robot Truly Love?

Fort Howard Theater at St. Norbert

Artificial Intelligence (AI ) has entered our world and changed the matrices of human relationships. A thousand years ago, the philosophical challenge was to think nature-and ourselves in the presence of nature. Today, according to Sr. Delio, the great and the first philosophical challenge is to think technology and to think ourselves in the presence of technology. Nature creates new connections and computer technology may be described within the wider framework of relationships. In this respect, a new type of complex life system is arising whereby the human person is not an autonomous subject over and against the machine and the machine is not an autonomous entity over and against the human person. Rather person and machine are interrelated and form a larger system of creative life. Using Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of love at the heart of the cosmos, Sr. Delio will show why AI is consonant with a metaphysics of love and Christogenesis.