Can we know God through machines?
Can machines know God?
And could machines, one day, become godlike themselves?
While AI is still in its infancy, it is evolving at lightning speed, and ingraining itself in our lives. From writing our emails, creating our budgets and even serving as our therapists, society is embracing AI as part of our everyday lives.
But what about faith? Our spirituality, our souls, our connection to God - these are elements of the human experience that can’t be quantified by science, and reproduced in machines. Or can they?
GUESTS:
- Dr. Declan Humphreys is a lecturer in Cyber Security and Ethics at the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He is also one of the winners of the ABC Top 5 Humanity residency programme for 2025.
- Dr. Jane Compson, Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and Ethics at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Jane is a practicing Buddhist and a trained chaplain. She is also a member of the research team at AI and Faith.
- Carl Youngblood, is the co-founder and current president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, and has more than 20 years experience in software engineering and technology development.
This program was made on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, and the lands of The Turrbal and Yuggera People.
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In our desperate attempt to achieve symbolic immortality through the creation of superintelligent machines, we may be engineering our own obsolescence, and the failure of the very immortality project we are pursuing. (VICTOR de SCHWANBERG / Science Photo Library)