The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age
About this ebook
Barth's injunctions--look the other in the eye (embodiment), speak to and hear the other (communication), aid the other (agency), and do it gladly (emotion)--provide the basis for the main chapters, each of which concludes with a case study of a current AI application that exemplifies the difficulties AI introduces into human relationality. The Artifice of Intelligence concludes with an examination of the incarnation, one that points toward the centrality of embodiment for full relationality.
About the author
Noreen L. Herzfeld is Reuter Professor of Science and Religion at St. John's University and senior research associate with ZRS Koper. A theologian and computer scientist, she is the author of several books, including In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit.
Ted Peters is emeritus professors of systematic theology and ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is author of God-The Worlds Future: Systematic Theology for a New Era (Fortress Press, 2015). He also served on the Human Genome Project and is author of The Stem Cell Debate (Fortress Press, 2007). He co-edited The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (2004).
