People are turning to AI for comfort in grief, for help with religious practice, and even for spiritual guidance. Making sense of that takes more than one kind of expertise, so on Tuesday, Nov. 17, we’re bringing together two scholars from very different fields.
Morgan Shipley is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He brings the perspective of someone who studies how people seek meaning, ritual and moral guidance and can give some context, looking at history, to today’s AI-assisted spiritual practices.
Ambuj Tewari is a Professor of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. As an AI researcher, he can explain what these systems actually do when someone brings them a spiritual question, and how religious ideas and themes find their way into the technology itself.
Together, they’ll explore:
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