Ancient Prompts-A technologist, a philosopher, and a theologian on being human in the age of AI

About this event

Come as you are — this is for technologists, students, church folks, and anyone who's curious. No background required.

You'll hear from a technologist, a philosopher, and a theologian, talking it through together:

- Michael Boone — NVIDIA - Meghan Sullivan — Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good - Paul Taylor — Bay Area Center for Faith, Work & Tech The Question

What does it mean to be human when machines can think, create, and even talk like us? This isn't about whether AI will take your job, or whether it's "conscious." It's the deeper question underneath both: if a computer can do so much of what used to make us special (thinking, creating, judging, even having a conversation), what's actually still ours?

Most conversations about AI get stuck between two extremes: big philosophical ideas that never get put into practice, and company promises you can't check for yourself. We want to try something different. We'll start with real technology that's already here, and with the documentation that's supposed to tell you what it does, and then ask what it means for the people on the other side of it.

We'll take up three everyday questions, each grounded in something real:

Learning. If you can just ask an AI for the answer, what's still worth learning yourself? We'll look at AI skills now being published, signed, and evaluated openly, where you can see what a tool...

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