The Eschatological Implications of AI w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Are you becoming a moral zombie? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. about artificial intelligence, why ChatGPT is damaging personal relationships in the classroom, how AI could be destroying virtue, and the eschatological implications of artificial intelligence.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8a_6nJzVA.

About the speaker:

Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P., a native of Germany, teaches philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, where he is also currently the chair of the philosophy department. He is also a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Academy of Catholic Theology. He obtained his doctorate under Robert Spaemann in Munich on Leibniz and the Spanish Jesuits (Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997) and did theological work on George Lindbeck and the question of a Thomist philosophy and theology of language (Beyond Modernism? - George Lindbeck and the Linguistic Turn in Theology, Neuried: Ars Una 2005). Other works include Thomas Aquinas: De veritate Q. 21-24; Translation and Commentary (Hamburg: Meiner, 2013) and God: Reason and Reality (Basic Philosophical Concepts) (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2014), as editor and contributor. Articles appeared in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Nova et Vetera, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and Angelicum. Areas of research and teaching include Free Will, the History of Philosophy and Philosophical Aesthetics. He has worked on a philosophical approach to Miracles and other topics of the philosophy of religion, and more recently the philosophy of technology.

This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast. My name is Father Gregory Pine,
0:14.0	and I'm delighted to welcome you for another installment of off-campus conversations, where we
0:19.6	follow up with someone who has been speaking on this or that campus
0:24.0	so that we can chase down some insights and just prolong that conversation. So I'm delighted for this episode to be joined by Father Anselm Ramelow.
0:32.1	Thanks for joining. Pleased to be here. Thank you. Wonderful. Folks might know you from various contributions that you've made to
0:41.3	Timistic Institute chapters, which have then appeared on the Timistic Institute podcast,
0:45.3	or from other works here there and everywhere.
0:48.3	But for those who don't know you, would you just say a word of introduction,
0:51.3	who you are, where you're from, and what you do?
0:53.3	Yes, I'm Father Anselm Ramelow, and I'm from Germany originally, and I did my doctorate
0:59.4	under Robert Spemann in Munich years ago, and then I came to the United States to join the Dominican
1:04.1	order, and I'm teaching philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in
1:09.6	Berkeley, California, and I have gotten into questions of AI, well, in a strange kind of way, because it isn't really my topic.
1:20.6	I'm really a bit of a Luddite.
1:22.6	And yet I was always aggravated by claims that computers can develop consciousness and that machines, you know, can be people too.
1:31.6	And so I started to develop a few responses to that and then people kept asking.
1:36.3	And so this whole topic kept growing.
1:39.1	And also now part of a think tank for the Vatican for for the Dicastria of Culture and Education,
1:46.1	which we published a book, too. It's called Encountering AI. And so that's an ongoing kind
1:55.3	of work for me, even though it's in some way not my primary topic, but as it is, you know, there are the ages
2:02.1	and the times that we live in and the questions that arise from that. And so we'll have
2:06.9	respond to that. That's what Dominicans do. Yeah, exactly. Before kind of diving into the theme
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