Muslim Futures - Episode 3: Technology and the Muslim Future

This episode takes on the dominance of technology-driven futures. We talk to James McGrail PhD candidate at Leiden’s Anthropology department whose work lies at the intersection of AI and Muslim futures in Singapore. We also dive in transhumanism, ethical AI and what all this means for Muslim imaginaries. Some resources:Huxley, Julian (1968). Transhumanism. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 8 (1): 73 - 76. Hejazi, Sara (2020). ‘Humankind. The Best of Molds’—Islam Confronting Transhumanism. Sophia 58 (4): 677 - 688.Revolutionary mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism – Justin Joque (2022)Raquib, A., Channa, B., Zubair, T. et al. Islamic virtue-based ethics for artificial intelligence. Discov Artif Intell 2, 11 (2022)