The New Religion of Artificial Intelligence and Its Threat to Human Dignity — A Conversation with Adam Kirsch
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with Adam Kirsch about the philosophical and religious presuppositions of Artificial Intelligence and the dangers it poses to human dignity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline |
| 0:10.4 | theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Albert Mobile, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in |
| 0:18.0 | Louisville, Kentucky. Adam Kirsch is a renowned literary critic and poet. He's |
| 0:22.2 | published multiple collections of poems as well as over |
| 0:25.2 | a dozen other books ranging in topics from literary biography to cultural analysis. He earned his |
| 0:30.9 | undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a PhD in English from Columbia University. |
| 0:36.0 | He's written numerous reviews and essays for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Atlantic. |
| 0:41.0 | He's an award-winning poet and author. |
| 0:43.0 | He's been conferred the National Jewish Book Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. |
| 0:47.5 | But his most recent book, The Revolt Against Humanity, |
| 0:50.4 | imagining a future without us is the topic of our conversation today. |
| 0:55.0 | Adam Kirsch, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks very much. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, I really look forward to the conversation about this book, |
| 1:02.0 | The Revolt Against Humanity, |
| 1:03.7 | imagining a future without us. |
| 1:06.8 | I've been familiar with your work for a long time. |
| 1:09.4 | I didn't see this one coming. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, that's nice to hear, thank you. Yes, I usually write about |
| 1:14.4 | literature or sometimes about Jewish subjects. I don't ordinarily write about |
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