The Trouble with AI: It’s Not What You Think! | Prof. James Madden

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 7, 2023 at North Carolina State University. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/3t2jnkc4. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: James Madden is Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College. He lives in Atchison, Kansas with his wife (Jennifer) and their six children; William, Martha, J. Patrick, Brendan, Jack, and Cormac. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006.

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0:28.7	So the title of what we're gonna talk about tonight
0:32.8	is the trouble with AI, it's not what you think.
0:36.6	Okay, and you can see in your handout that I emphasize, it's not what you think. Okay, and you can see in your handout
0:38.6	that I emphasize, it's not what you think.
0:42.7	And when I originally did this,
0:44.7	it was under the title, because I'd been asked to do so,
0:48.4	you know, to talk about the question of AI and the human soul.
0:52.6	All right, and so I kind of want to frame a little bit that way.
0:56.4	So I'm quoting Aristotle.
0:58.9	Aristotle defines the soul.
1:00.5	He says the soul is the first actualization of a natural body that has life
1:05.4	potential.
1:06.7	Okay.
1:08.0	And so now for Aristotle, kind of the tradition of philosophizing that I would hope to, you know, be able to like motivate a little bit.
1:15.6	Though there's, I'm not going to do much with Aristotle and what follows, but I want you to see that when I say soul, I'm talking about a kind of life.
1:24.6	Okay.
1:25.6	A way something is such that it's alive as the kind of thing it is.
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