AI

In Your Face: DeepFakes meet DeepEthics / Conference on Judaism, Jews, and AI (ASU)

The world of deepfakes – videos that look remarkably real but are frighteningly fake – have become the scourge of the internet, prompting tech companies to scramble for solutions and governments to legislate regulations. In this talk, I apply “Deep” Jewish Ethics to explain why this technological abuse is so bad, so deeply bad, that more must be done to reign it in while still allowing for the positive applications to flourish.

Man Hath No Advantage Over Machine? On the Existentialist Implications of Generative AI

Generative AI has taken the world by storm. Creating art, literature, music as well as engaging in fluid conversation, the artificial intelligence of today is simply astounding. Indeed, AI has since humbled us. It is causing us to question what exactly is our unique worth. To paraphrase king Solomon: “Man hath no advantage over machine; for all is vanity.” In this lecture I hope to convince you that man indeed has an advantage over machine.

The Moral Status of a Humanoid

How are we to interact with mindless AI – robots, chatbots, virtual “people” online? The amswer, I suggest, is not found in the halls of academia but in the private quarters of a Canaanite slave.