HUMANISM EXPLORATIONS

2024

🛑 Our Next Meeting Sunday, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. December 1, 2024

🌟 HUMANISM EXPLORATIONS🌟 is part of the Center For Inquiry , CFI Rogue Valley Humanists and Freethinkers and Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Location: Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (under the balcony) *

87 Fourth Street, Ashland, Oregon

Contact: HumanismExplorations @gmail.com Roy Kindell 541-951-8035

Humanism Explorations Meeting

April 21, 2024, 3 to 5 P.M.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

In Part 2 of our discussion of Artificial Intelligence we will explore in greater depth the ethical implications and impact of rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technologies. These include: Deep Fakes in politics, racial and demographic bias, creative and artistic property questions, AI control of lethal autonomous weapons, the value Alignment problem and Challenges to human dignity and autonomy.

See below for discussion resource links:

RESOURCE LINKS:

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" - The List of Lists

Benefits & Risks of Artificial Intelligence - Future of Life Institute

Hackers competed to find AI harms. Here’s what they found. - The Washington Post

A Humanistic View Of Artificial Intelligence - Forbes

Ethics of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up - ars TECHNICA

Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse - Vanity Fair

I'm Afraid I Can't Do That, Dave. - HAL in "2001" -- (58 secs)

3 principles for creating safer AI (17 min)- Stuart Russell TED Talk

How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI - (17 min) Max Tegmark Future of Life Institute

Advances in artificial intelligence raise new ethics concerns - (8 min) PBS New Hour Jan 10, 2023

AGI is Coming! Here's What Will Happen When It Arrives (11 min) - AI Uncovered

A.I. Revolution: Explore the promise and perils of new A.I. technologies (53 min) - PBS NOVA March 27, 2024

Will AI Become Self Aware? (13 1/2 min) - AI Uncovered

Humanism Explorations Meeting

March 17, 2024, 3 to 5 P.M.

Artificial Intelligence: Promise or Peril?

The capabilities of AI have grown rapidly in recent months. We can now converse in human-like dialog with generative AI, as well request the creation of detailed images, video, music, imaginative stories or answers to complex logical or logistical problems.

Will powerful AI technologies aide in advancing human flourishing and well being or will it take our jobs, deliver fake news, as well as fake politics, gender and racially biased information or confabulated "facts"? Could Artificial intelligence achieve or even surpass human level intelligence? We will explore these questions as well as the meaning of the new AI vocabulary.

See below for discussion resource links: