A.I., Religion & Humanity
How Might (Or Should) We Shape the Future?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 AT 6:30 PM
​at The Stanford Faculty Club
​439 Lagunita Drive | Stanford, CA 94305

RECEPTION BEGINS AT 6:30 PM, FOLLOWED BY DINNER

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​How have artificial ​intelligence and religion interfaced in the past, for better or worse, what promise and perils might the future hold for their continuing connection, and what should our role be in shaping that future? A conversation featuring:

​Norman Wirzba

​Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics, Duke University
Editor for the book series Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism
Author of several books including Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation
Co-founder and Executive Committee member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology

Daniel Yamins

Daniel Yamins is assistant professor of psychology and computer science at Stanford University, a faculty scholar at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and an affiliate of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research group focuses on reverse engineering the algorithms of the human brain, both to learn about how our minds work and to build more effective artificial intelligence systems. He is especially interested in how brain circuits for sensory information processing arise via the optimization of high-performing cortical algorithms for key behavioral tasks. ​
​The evening will include a moderated discussion among the panelists, followed by a time for questions and mixed discipline and mixed university breakout rooms to continue the conversation. Click here for suggest materials you can review before this Roundtable.

​THE FACULTY ROUNDTABLE AT STANFORD IS CO-CHAIRED BY:

  • Eran Bendavid, Associate Professor of Medicine, Primary Care & Population Health, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
  • Roger T. Howe, William E. Ayer Professor of Engineering
  • Joseph S. Huang, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives, Computer Science
  • Irene Yuan Lo, Assistant Professor in Management Science & Engineering
  • William Newsome, Harman Family Provostial Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Vincent V.C. Woo Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
  • Wilman Tsai, Executive Director, IMPACT research center, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Timothy Tseng, Coordinator, Stanford Faculty Roundtable