ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WALKING THE BOUNDARY |
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| Authors: | Anne Foerst |
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| Affiliation: | Anne Foerst is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cognobotics Group at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School. Her mailing address is 545 Technology Square, NE 43–812, Cambridge, MA 02139, and her E-mail address is . Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this article for class use, with this note: Reprinted from Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Theology and science generally conduct research independently, with no interchange. The possibility for mutual enrichment often is thwarted because people working in the two fields have very different worldviews, which are mostly held subconsciously. In this paper I will try to establish a dialogue of mutual enrichment. I have chosen artificial intelligence (AI) as an exemplary scientific discipline and the theology of Paul Tillich as a complement. I reinterpret Tillich's concept of sin to introduce a framework for a dialogue between the two. This framework aims to prevent people from either camp from assuming the existence of absolute truth and thus creating a dogmatism. Paradoxically, it also prevents people from being relativistic. The aim is to overcome mutual indifference and ignorance. |
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| Keywords: | artificial intelligence dialogue mutual enrichment theology |
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