Living Freedom: ’What does it mean to be human in a world of generative AI?’

Features the discussion ‘What does it mean to be human in a world
of generative AI?’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School
2023.  


People are fascinated, amused and alarmed – often all three at
once, at the generative AI tools that have taken the internet by
storm over the last year. Some people welcome the new
possibilities that these tools seem to offer for human creativity
and flourishing. Others fear the consequences – from students
getting AI to write their homework, to artists and journalists
losing their livelihood to AI, to reputations being ruined and
public discourse polluted by AI-generated scams and 'deepfakes'.
What 20th-century events and philosophies originally shaped the
invention of AI? What 21st-century phenomena are shaping the way
we understand AI now? Will generative AI add to, or detract from,
the meaning in our lives? 


 


LECTURER 


Sandy Starr deputy director, Progress Educational Trust, author
of the Letter on Liberty AI: Separating Man from Machine 


 


 


READ ON 


Computing machinery and intelligence Alan Turing, Mind, Volume
LIX, Issue 236, October 1950, Pages 433–460 


The cynical hysteria around AI Timandra Harkness, UnHerd, 2 June
2023 


 


LIVING FREEDOM 


Living Freedom exists to renew freedom through education and
debate, offering young adults the opportunity to explore ideas
and debate ideals as they relate to the past, present, and future
of freedom. See www.livingfreedom.org.uk and
@LivingFreedomUK 


 


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