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4 July 2023

Harm, AI, and Religion | Discourse! June 2023

Podcast
In our final #RSPdiscourse of the season, editor Andie Alexander, Craig Martin, and Paul-François Tremlett consider the concept of "harm" & religion in recent legislation, Scotland elections, and AI & Religion.
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31 January 2022

When Religion Doesn’t Behave | Discourse! January 2022 (with video)

Podcast
The first Discourse! of 2022 is hosted by Michael Munnik (Cardiff), who is joined by guests Beth Singler (Cambridge) and Richard Newton (Alabama) to discuss how the media is talking about "religion" this month.
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8 February 2020

What is AI For?

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7 February 2020

Gaps in Our Understanding: AI, Gods, and Humanity

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3 February 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Religion

Podcast
Chris Cotter and Beth Singler discuss the intersections between religion and Artificial Intelligence from slavery and pain to machines taking over religious functions and practices.
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18 October 2019

The Promise of Reincarnation in the Grundtvig AI

Response
Researchers are looking to make a robotic re-incarnation of Danish Founding Father N.F.S. Grundtvig, but what do such AI interfaces say about how religious studies can participate in digital humanities research?
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7 October 2019

When Archive Meets A.I. – Computational Humanities Research on a Danish Secular Saint

Podcast
In this week’s podcast, Katrine Frøkjaer Baunvig discusses preliminary results from the research project “Waking the Dead”. This project aims to build an a.i. bot of Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872), a Danish “secular saint” considered to be the father of modern Denmark, who contributed immensely into generating a national consciousness through his writings, both in a political and religious way.
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17 February 2017

Down the Rabbit Hole of Artificial Intelligence

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The things that make us uncomfortable about the interaction is what is sometimes referred to as “the uncanny valley.” Most often this applies to robots who are supposed to look human, but can’t quite pull it off. But it seems appropriate to this interaction as well. You reach the uncanny valley when you get close to “almost human” in looks or interactions.
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13 February 2017

AI and Religion: An Initial Conversation

Podcast
This roundtable, in association with the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, considers the impact of recent technological advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics on religion, religious conceptions of the world, and the human. It draws attention to how such advances push religion beyond how it has been commonly defined and considered.
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2 May 2016

Popular Culture, Dr. Who, and Religion

Podcast
Go back to 2013 to discuss Religion & Pop Culture (and #DoctorWho) with James F. McGrath! It's a big universe, and sometimes things get lost in time and space.
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