“The computer scientists know, of course, that AI developed over decades in the background and has just sort of reached some new heights of capability.”
David Smith is Professor of Education at Calvin University.
“But for the rest of us, it felt like it kind of landed on us overnight and it started changing everything. Suddenly, all kinds of tasks that we thought we knew how to do, and we thought we knew where they fit into our professions, now AI can be used to do them, or can it?”
Around 600 attendees aim to answer that question among others at Calvin’s Wisdom in the Age of AI Conference discussing AI’s role in everything from education to faith, business, health care, and journalism.
“AI is not just a technical artifact. It has significant cultural, environmental, political, social consequences.”
Derek Schuurman is Professor-in-Chair of Computer Science at Calvin.
“If you peel back all the different questions that have arisen, one of the key, enduring questions that it raises again is what does it mean to be human, and there’s not a technical answer to that question.”
Both professors say they hope the conference serves as a gateway to more conversations about how, where, and when AI can be best utilized in the modern world.
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