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The Promise and Perils of Artificial Intelligence: New Frontiers for World Religions

While AI has immense potential to enhance human flourishing by reducing repetitive work, improving access to knowledge, and revolutionizing fields such as medicine, like all technologies, it also has the potential for dangerous misuse and unprecedented technological advancement is compelling humanity to confront ideas about morality. By examining how artificial intelligence (AI) — the ability of machines to perform tasks that are typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning and problem-solving — we are faced with profound ethical questions from a faith perspective. Leaders from religious traditions across the globe describe how their faiths view technology and what AI could mean for the future of human flourishing.

15:05 | 2023

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