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John T. Behrens, founding director of Notre Dame’s Technology and Digital Studies Program, will give a talk about AI on Tuesday at Seton Hill University in Greensburg. (Submitted/Seton Hill Univ.)
The founding director of the University of Notre Dame’s Technology and Digital Studies program will give a presentation Tuesday about artificial intelligence in Greensburg.
John Behrens will present “Babel or Jerusalem? AI, Daily Life & the Common Good” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Seton Hill University’s Cecilian Hall.
Behrens will offer a plain-English overview of how artificial intelligence technologies operate and demonstrate recent advances in AI capability. He will address immediate challenges surrounding AI implementation, including environmental energy costs, workplace impacts and questions regarding what human tasks should be shared with machines versus held sacred.
Drawing upon papal encyclicals such as “Laudato Si’” and “Magnifica Humanitas,” Behrens will examine the ethical and theological framework that should guide society’s collective response to rapid technological change.
“As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms our daily lives and academic disciplines, Dr. Behrens’ insights will provide our campus and local community with a thought-provoking perspective on how we can ethically navigate these emerging technologies while remaining steadfastly focused on human dignity and the common good,” said university President Mary Finger.
Behrens has authored more than 50 academic publications on learning science and assessment systems and co-teaches the popular Notre Dame course “Generative AI in the Wild.”
The lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Greensburg/Uniontown Notre Dame Alumni Club and Seton Hill University, it is part of the Notre Dame Alumni Association’s Hesburgh Lecture Series.
The campus is at 1 Seton Hill Drive in Greensburg.
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