Artificial Intelligence & Human Identity

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The stuff of movies is fast becoming the stuff of reality.

The robots are no longer coming. They’re already here. Artificial intelligence has been progressing rapidly, with new advances – and the ethical conundrums they raise – making headlines every week.

The growing interest in the issues raised by humanoid robots and their relationship with human beings is particularly significant. Would you be happy for a robot to provide company for your elderly grandparent? Or fight our country’s wars on our behalf? How ready are you to be driven in an autonomous car? Or receive therapy from an emotionally-intelligent machine?

Whether we’re ready or not, these technologies will impact all of us, changing the way we live and work, and challenging our understanding of what it is to be human.

What does it mean to be created in the image of God in a society in which intelligent machines play an increasing role? What are the potential benefits and risks of these technologies, and how should the ethical issues they introduce be addressed?

Join us for an evening with John Wyatt to explore the theological and ethical challenges of robotics and AI in today’s world. This is one of a series of events organised by LICC in conjunction with Kingdom Code, seeking to reflect on how Christians can steward technology well without allowing it to master us.

John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College London, and author of Matters of Life and Death: Human dilemmas in the light of the Christian Faith, and Right to Die? Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Care (both published by IVP). He has been involved in a research project based at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge, exploring the impact of advances in robotics and AI technology on human identity and self-understanding. He lectures widely on topics relating to biomedical ethics and the wider implications of technological advances.

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