Panel Discussion: What Makes us Human, AI, Spirituality and Race

In by MFC University of Toronto

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2022-02-02

Country: Canada
City: Toronto, Ontario
Join Hart House and the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Toronto for a conversation around artificial intelligence (AI), spirituality, and the Black experience; with guest panelists Dr. Rhonda McEwan, Suzanne van Geuns, Robyn Hillman-Harrigan; moderated by Efosa Obano, as we explore the intersections between AI, spirituality, and Black experiences. Increasingly, humans have looked toward artificial intelligence as their savior to social burdens, wishfully waiting for it to overcome human limitations, flaws, and build towards a techno utopia. Private and public companies have tapped into these hopeful associations and are actively looking to Ai to automate decision-making processes within economic sectors, health, transportation, retail, education, the justice system, and many more. But, can AI truly solve real-world problems? Does AI make us more human? Faith, Spirituality and Religion are key tenets of what makes us human, so how AI interprets and normalizes these human conditions has huge implications for people of African descent and the BIPOC community at large. Critical questions that will be explored, related to Black Futures, are: what biases are present in the design of AI? Will they amplify human biases? How will the Black experience be impacted by these algorithms?