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Deus Et Machina
by American Academy of Religion
A podcast that brings people together for short conversations about religion and technology. Hosted by Matthew Vaughan and Norm Jacknis.
Episodes
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S1E9 - Better worlds, a patchwork of messiahs, and humans being
In this episode, we sit down to talk with Suzanne van Geuns, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion. Suzanne is helping us think big-picture through the roles that religion might play in helping us envision a…
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S1E8 - Immortality!
This is the third and final episode in which we discuss transhumanism with authors Tracy Trothen and Calvin Mercer. Calvin teaches at East Carolina University, and Tracy teaches at Queen’s University in Ontario. They’re authors of a fascinating new book called “Religion and the Technological...
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S1E7 - Robot faith
In this episode, the second in our three-part series with authors Calvin Mercer and Tracy Trothen, we spend some time listening to them introduce their new book, “Religion and the Technological Future.” In this episode, Calvin walks us through the five categories of human enhancement that they...
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S1E6 - Questions about questions about transhumanism
This episode is the first in a three-part series related to the themes of religion, transhumanism, and human enhancement. We are joined by Tracy Trothen and Calvin Mercer, authors of a recent book called “Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial…
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S1E5 - The Ethical Dilemmas of the Not-So-Humble Machine
In this episode, the second in our two-part series with David Hoffman from Columbia University, we continue our discussion of AI and medical ethics. In this episode, which very much builds on the previous one, we discuss some of the many ethical implications of letting machines into the…
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S1E4 - Medical Ethics: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
In this episode, the first in a two-part series on medical ethics, we are joined by David Hoffman, a professor of bioethics at Columbia University and an attorney specializing in healthcare law. These two episodes are all about some of the ways that AI has impacted healthcare – something that...
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S1E3 - Who’s to blame? The Virtual Rabbi
This is the third and final episode in which we talk to Jacob Goodson, a philosopher from Southwestern College. In the previous episodes, we have talked about how to frame the questions we’re hoping to address, as well as what we mean by certain words we tend to use in this conversation. In this...
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S1E2 - Can we be virtually real?
This is the second of three episodes in which we talk to Jacob Goodson from Southwestern College about the philosophical implications of putting religion and AI into conversation. We begin by talking about the work of another philosopher named David Chalmers. Much of this episode asks what we…
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S1E1 - Created Creators
Our guest is Dr. Jacob Goodson, a philosopher at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. Our goal for this conversation was to tease out some of the key questions that should shape how we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) from a religious perspective, and religion from an AI perspective.…
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A podcast that brings people together for short conversations about religion and technology. Hosted by Matthew Vaughan and Norm Jacknis.
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American Academy of Religion
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