About this talk

In this lecture, we glimpse our best selves and compare that to a world where we lose everything of ourselves to AI. We are glorious creations that revel in agency, freedom and creativity. What do innovations such as cars that don't need us to drive and creative AIs that remove the effort of, say, writing or music making mean in this context? Further, with a future being forged by limited perspectives, how can human diversity inform better AI for all? The lecture explores how artificial intelligence systems are often presented to us as rivals, yet the extraordinary achievements of modern AI are matters of performance—producing convincing outputs quickly and accurately. Human intelligence, however, is something richer and more complex. It is not only performance but inhabited intelligence: intelligence embodied in living beings, unfolding through memory, emotion, responsibility, and shared practices over time. The lecture argues that human beings remain inhabited intelligences—people whose thinking is inseparable from memory, embodiment, emotion, and community, and that AI is the 'pale shadow' rather than humans being in the shade.

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