Artificial Intelligence is now a basic part of daily life, supporting our health, directing government services, shaping relationships, and even ordering our spiritual lives. As AI becomes more widespread amidst scandals over its misuse, public trust in technology companies has declined.
How can we ensure that AI serves the common good? Can Christian insights on personhood, beneficence, and justice provide wisdom to guide those who design, use, and govern AI systems?
Join us as we partner with Chesterton House at Cornell to welcome two senior scholars, campus leaders, and thinkers at the nexus of faith and science.
Dr. Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder of Affectiva, which provides Emotion AI, and co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, which provides the first FDA-cleared smartwatch to detect seizures. Picard is author of over three hundred peer-reviewed articles spanning AI, affective computing, and medicine.
Dr. J. Nathan Matias organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. Nathan is an assistant professor in the Cornell University Department of Communication and field member in Information Science. Nathan is founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, a public-interest research group at Cornell that organizes citizen behavioral science and behavioral consumer protection research for digital life.