AI and Human Dignity: Understanding the Debate
Tue, May 06
|Palo Alto
Stanford students are invited to join us for this evening dinner seminar with Luke Pistol (PhD Candidate, Stanford) on the prospects for human dignity and flourishing in an age of AI.
Time & Location
May 06, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Palo Alto, 2345 Dartmouth St, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
About the Event
Should we be optimistic about human dignity and flourishing in an age of AI? Recent advances have raised various ethical and metaphysical questions concerning human dignity in the context of increasingly powerful AI systems. This discussion seminar will explore topics connecting human dignity and AI including: AI and consciousness—outlining arguments for thinking AI agents are (or shortly will be) conscious, and arguments for thinking this is not the case—as well as other topics such as AI and democracy, privacy, mental health, and work. Come prepared to raise and discuss your most pressing questions about AI the future of human dignity.
Dinner will be provided to attendees. As space at this event will be limited, please let us know if you can no longer make it so that we can make room for others.
About the speaker
Luke Pistol is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Stanford University, whose research interests include the computational theory of mind, topics in the philosophy of AI, neural representation, and the philosophy and neuroscience of symbol use. He has a master’s degree in Neuroscience from Stanford University and practiced law in Australia.
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Tickets
Stanford Student
$5.00
Total
$0.00