Special seminar: Is AI a threat to faith?
What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on humanity? Should we be afraid of being replaced? It brings great benefits but what are the real risks?
- Date: 11/9/2023
- Venue: Abrar House W1H 4LP, London
- Time: 9:30 A.M - 17:00 P.M
- Dinner will be served at the venue
AI raises so many questions, maybe especially for believers who have the belief in a divine spark in every human being. Yet AI is powered by an electrical spark. Join this very timely dialogue to consider ethics, humanity, freedom, spirituality. It’s time to ask what it means to be free and contemplate Frankenstein’s legacy.
Session 1: 10.00 to 12.00
‘I am not a robot.’ – How do we maintain human freedom and agency?
· Dr Eve Poole OBE
Interim Chief Executive Officer, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
· Revd Dr Nadim Nassar
Executive Director, Awareness Foundation
Dr Ali Paya
Academic, Professor and author
Session 2: 12.00 to 14.00
How does AI fit into human evolution?
· Revd Dr Tim Bull,
Director of Vocations, St Albans Diocese
Dr Frantisek Stech
Charles University, Protestant Theological Faculty
Dr Amina Inloes
Islamic College, Willesden
Session 3:14.00 to 16.00
The Turing Test – Has AI passed the test and what does that mean?
Marius Dorobantu
research associate and lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr Imran Panjwani
Lecturer in Law at Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Laith Kubba
(Founder of Quran Education Foundation)