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AI and Apocalypse conference (April 2018) media archive

Recently ‘AlphaGo’, a Google/Deepmind programme, defeated the two most elite players at the Chinese game ‘Go’. These victories were, by current understandings of AI, a vast leap forward towards a future that could contain human-like technological entities, technology-like humans, and embodied machines. As corporations like Google invest heavily in technological and theoretical developments leading towards further, effective advances – a new ‘AI Summer’ - we can also see that hopes, and fears, about what AI and robotics will bring humanity are gaining pace, leading to new speculations and expectations, even amidst those who would position themselves as non-religious.

Speculations include Transhumanist and Singularitarian teleological and eschatological schemes, assumptions about the theistic inclinations of thinking machines, the impact of the non-human on our conception of the uniqueness of human life and consciousness, representations in popular culture and science fiction, and the moral boundary work of secular technologists in relation to their construct, ‘religion’. Novel religious impulses in the face of advancing technology have been largely ignored by the institutions founded to consider the philosophical, ethical and societal meanings of AI and robotics.

This symposium sought to explore the realities and possibilities of this unprecedented apocalypse in human history.


Day 1 "AI and Apocalypse" 5th April, 2018

Robert Geraci: Bearers of the Apocalypse: Horses, Robots, and the Digital Future of India.
Robert Geraci: Bearers of the Apocalypse: Horses, Robots, and the Digital Future of India.
Michael Morelli: Representing the End—The Ethical Implications of Praying to Bots.
Michael Morelli: Representing the End—The Ethical Implications of Praying to Bots.
Maximillian Dinu-Gavrilciuc: The Theological Singularity – Machines Capable of an Ontological Leap?
Maximillian Dinu-Gavrilciuc: The Theological Singularity – Machines Capable of an Ontological Leap?
Victoria Lorrimar: Mind-Uploading and the Importance of the Human Body for Intelligence.
Victoria Lorrimar: Mind-Uploading and the Importance of the Human Body for Intelligence.
Syed Mustafa Ali: ‘White Crisis’ and/as ‘Existential Risk', or The Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence.
Syed Mustafa Ali: ‘White Crisis’ and/as ‘Existential Risk', or The Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence.
AI and Apocalypse roundtable discussion 5 April 2018. With Beth Singler, Robert Geraci, Scott Midson and Victoria Lorrimar.
AI and Apocalypse roundtable discussion 5 April 2018. With Beth Singler, Robert Geraci, Scott Midson and Victoria Lorrimar.

Day 2 "AI and Apocalypse" 6th April, 2018

Beth Singler: “Mind in the Wrong Place: Thinking About AI Apocalypticism Anthropologically”.
Beth Singler: “Mind in the Wrong Place: Thinking About AI Apocalypticism Anthropologically”.
David Gamez: Machine Consciousness and the AI Apocalypse.
David Gamez: Machine Consciousness and the AI Apocalypse.
Leila Johnston: Presentation by CenSAMM's AI and Apocalypse Conference Artist in Residence.
Leila Johnston: Presentation by CenSAMM's AI and Apocalypse Conference Artist in Residence.
William Barylo: Becoming Muslim in Europe in the age of AI: a metacolonial journey.
William Barylo: Becoming Muslim in Europe in the age of AI: a metacolonial journey.
Scott Midson: Love and Liberation from Creation to the Singularity.
Scott Midson: Love and Liberation from Creation to the Singularity.
Ian Huyett: Religious Parallels to the Simulation Hypothesis: Gnosticism, Mormonism, and Neoplatonism.
Ian Huyett: Religious Parallels to the Simulation Hypothesis: Gnosticism, Mormonism, and Neoplatonism.
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