This book (my own) focuses on the intersubjective foundations of morality and ethics, and puts human relations to AI in the context of other morally troubling relations with non-humans and "near-humans" that seem to challenge the definition of the human itself.
Snow Crash explores the depth of what it means to be human in a technologically obsessed culture. Snow Crash is also credited with being the source of the Metaverse and anticipated things like techno-currency and the collapse of information and surveillance networks.
It raises interesting questions as to the *ends* of intelligence, the relationship between intelligence and consciousness or sentience, and the place of humanity in a universe where sentient, conscious beings no longer have a monopoly on intelligence.
ims to present the Baha'i Houses of Worship (or temples) as places where members of all religions are welcome, as a form of human flourishing. While the latter is true, other than 2 images, the AI generated Baha'i temples don't look like any of the existing ones. The video also aims to represent the ethic of human unity in diversity that is central to the Baha'i Faith - while there's only so much that can be captured in a 1:13 minute video, mentioning only Buddhists, Christians & Muslims is problematic (some of the comments on Facebook show this). I'm nominating this as an example of an AI work that has good intentions, but creates an incomplete & even inaccurate & potentially contentious picture of the subject of religious flourishing. Perhaps addressing its problems can advance discourse & understanding of human religious flourishing in the age of AI.
I want to nominate this work because it should be a critical part of the discussion between AI and Consciousness, especially as understood from the Vedantic perspective. AI provokes fascinating questions about the nature of knowledge and consciousness, and the Vedantic perspective provides fascinating insight the oneness of all beings, insight into the limited body-mind consciousness in the relative world and the absolute consciousness; and illumines human flourishing by leading humanity to turn within to understand the non-difference between the relative (self) and the absolute (Self).
Early but convincing example of bias built into the fashioning of algorithms that exclude people of color. Human flourishing remains a challenge because AI will never be context independent no matter how extensive the LLM. Social bias remains so our participation must include an intentional focus on people on the margins.
The article describes the danger posed by Albert Borgmann's device paradigm to the values of the Kingdom of God, which aim towards human flourishing, in Latinx communities. And proposes a view of Christian education to address digital technologies/culture, which grounds AI and which AI is a part of.
This is a story about a society that enjoys peace, harmony, and technological advancement at the cost of one small child's misery. The story succinctly encapsulates the ethical quandaries of AI and our technofuture.
