The theme for the gathering is, “The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence for Human Society and the Idea of the Human Person”. The aim of the meeting is to promote a better awareness of the profound cultural impact AI is likely to have on human society. The symposium will feature six experts from the fields of neuroscience, philosophy, Catholic theology, human rights law, ethics and electrical engineering.
Experts from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Goethe University, Boston College, and Google will discuss questions regarding AI and whether it can reproduce consciousness, AI and philosophical challenges, and AI and religion, and what it would mean in relation to Catholic doctrine.
The afternoon panel will focus on ethical and legal consequences arising from AI addressed by experts from the EU Agency for Human Rights, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technology Centre, and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
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