HeyJaredPrompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI
This podcast draw listeners into an ongoing conversation inside one university as it faces the promises and pressures of artificial intelligence.
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Wisdom in the Age of AI: A Conference Preview (opens the original)
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"Being discerning isn't enough," David Smith suggests in this episode's preview of the October 8-10 AI-focused conference at Calvin University. Planners for four divisions of the conference--David Smith, Eric Araújo, Jason Stansbury, and Forrest Wakeman join Craig Mattson to give listeners a foretaste of Calvin-hosted conversation featuring prominent voices at the intersection of Christian thought and AI technology. In the second half of this episode, undergraduate student Nathan Holtrop talks w
Our Friend the Magic Robot (opens the original)
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This episode lets you eavesdrop on liberal arts community in an age when a friendly chatbot promises to do everything for you in a fraction of the usual time. But not everything is well in age of friendly magical robots. A department chair mourns for something she calls the joy of procrastination, and a first-year student confesses to a mounting impatience. A production manager asks whether a machine that answers every question has quietly stepped into the place of the divine. Then the interim p
The Struggle's the Point (opens the original)
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The assignment takes an hour if you do it honestly. Or it takes five minutes if you let a bot do it for you. Facing choices like this all the time, a junior in computer science describes what living with AI is doing to him in a liberal arts community. He finds help in the writings of Simone Weil--and in the company of an assistant registrar, a psychologist of religion, and a professor who taught here thirty-three years. Craig Mattson hosts this episode of Prompted with Rachel Cush, Greg Goodfell
The Aliens Have Finally Come (opens the original)
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Does AI represent an abuse of power that tempts our allegiance? Or is AI itself a power and a principality that threatens human existence? This episode features a Prompted 's widest disagreements yet. Making sense of the uncanny power of AI, the liberal arts student at the table ponders the demonic . Meanwhile, a professor of political science reaches instead for the terminology of the idolatrous . And the vice president in charge of technology at the university ponders Martin Buber's I-Thou rel
Is AI a neutral tool? (opens the original)
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Is AI just a tool? Is it a neutral instrument until somebody picks it up and does something good or bad with it? A pre-med senior says yes. A geographer, reaching for Postman and Ellul, says no. Wait, says a theological librarian,. there might actually be an element of neutrality. But there's also an enormous responsibility. Whether it's a neutral tool or a biased platform, AI feels like a pervasive vapor that enters everything in liberal arts community. Which is why one guest says it makes her
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