237 - Special Panel: AI 2024 Cultural Retrospective/2025 Predictions

237 - Special Panel: AI 2024 Cultural Retrospective/2025 Predictions

Author: aiandyou December 30, 2024 Duration: 55:57
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . In our last episode of 2024, we have our traditional end of year retrospective/prediction episode. We’ll be taking a look back over the year just ending and forward to 2025, but we’re not going to focus on technology, when GPT-5 is going to drop, etc. The space is already stuffed full of that sort of thing. We’re going to look at the time through an anthropological lens, for which I am rejoined by two former guests, anthropologist Beth Singler, who was in episodes 38 and 39, and philosopher John Zerilli, who was in episodes 78 and 79. Beth is Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) and co-lead of the Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab at the University of Zurich, where she leads projects on religion and AI. Her most recent books are Religion and Artificial Intelligence and The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence. John is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, with a PhD in cognitive science and philosophy, and carrying out research at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His most recent book, A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence, was published in 2021. We consider how AI has been reshaping public narratives and attitudes over questions like job replacement, creativity, education, law, and religion. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.          

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