Pod and Ponder Continues with “The Promise and Peril of Generative AI”

Posted By: Christopher Adamson (CELT) On: 2024-11-21
Posted On: 2024-11-21
Join the Pod and Ponder series to discuss with colleagues how to form students as mature critics of innovative technology. Together, we will reflect on podcasts featuring educators, technology critics, and digital humanists that call for purposeful and holistic responses to modern AI from various perspectives and philosophical commitments. Dive into lively discussions, develop practical classroom strategies, and help students grow as mature critics of the digital age!

Each session will be a self-contained conversation over Zoom surrounding a specific podcast episode, so join whichever ones interest you. We will continue the discussion with:

The Promise and Peril of Generative AI

November 25th, 2024, 12:15 – 1:00 PM

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Episode Description: With ChatGPT, and AI more generally, very much in the news, director Michael Sacasas talked with Dr. Scott Hawley about recent trends in generative AI and its possible consequences across a variety of domains. Dr. Scott Hawley is Professor of Physics at Belmont University and Technical Fellow at Harmonai. He has worked extensively on machine learning in the field of audio engineering, and also writes on the intersection of ethics, faith, and AI. You can also listen to Dr. Hawley’s March 2022 lecture at the Study Center here: “Curves and Categories: Machine Learning, AI, and the Nature of Classification.”

See the whole series and listen to embedded podcasts at celt.smumn.edu/pod-and-ponder.