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The Artifice of Intelligence

Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age
  • ISBN-13: 9781506486901
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Noreen Herzfeld, Foreword by Ted Peters
  • Price: AUD $73.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 19/05/2023
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 200 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Religion & science [HRAM3]
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AI is becoming ubiquitous. Whatever its arrival portends for our future, whether riches or ruin, it cannot be avoided. The Artifice of Intelligence explores two questions at the heart of a theological response to AI. Is it possible for human beings to have authentic relationships with an AI? How does the increasing presence of AI change the way humans relate to one another? In pursuing answers to these questions, Herzfeld explores what it means to be created in the image of God and to create AI in our own image. It utilizes and expands Karl Barth's relational understanding of the imago Dei to examine humanity's relationship both with AI and, through it, with one another. 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.
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 ofsystematic theology and ethics atPacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is author ofGod-The World"s 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-editedThe Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (2004).
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