Artificial Intelligence and Our View of Human Persons (with Mihretu Guta)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Progress in the development and application of artificial intelligence is coming at a rapid pace today, and is challenging not only our view of work in the future, but also our view of human persons. Can machines have consciousness like a person does? How about rationality? Moral reasoning? Creativity? Join us for this fascinating discussion with philosopher Dr. Mihretu Guta as he explains what artificial intelligence involves and how it impacts our view of what constitutes a human person.&nb...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.
0:06.5	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at
0:10.4	Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.
0:13.0	And I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology
0:18.4	Biola University.
0:19.6	We're here today to talk about the subject of artificial intelligence and how that connects
0:26.3	to a Christian worldview.
0:28.3	We have a specialist here on our campus today.
0:30.5	I'm so excited for you to meet and to get acquainted with and to hear some he's done a lot of thinking about this and to hear some of his views.
0:38.0	Dr. Marietta Guta is a PhD in philosophy from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.
0:43.8	He's an adjunct faculty both here at Biola and at Azusa Pacific University.
0:49.4	He is a specialist in the area of metaphysics and the philosophy of mind.
0:54.0	Don't let those terms throw you.
0:55.4	We'll define those here before too long.
0:57.8	But he is particularly a specialist in the area of the
1:01.6	neurosciences, the brain, the soul, and how that connects with things like artificial intelligence.
1:09.4	So Marietta, welcome.
1:11.8	Thanks for joining us today and we look forward to our conversation on this, what I think is a really interesting subject of artificial intelligence.
1:19.0	Yeah, thank you so much. I'm very delighted to be here and I'm excited to talk about this topics because they
1:24.3	interest me a lot and so I'm happy to share whatever I have.
1:30.3	The best place to start would be tell us exactly what is artificial intelligence.
1:37.0	Okay, artificial intelligence is an attempt that people make to create artificial intelligent agents or even persons.
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