The Truth about AI (and other Tech that will Change your Life)

Hardly a day goes by without another slew of headlines about AI, ranging from how AI will take our jobs to how AI will take our place. Not all stories are negative, of course; many enthuse about the opportunities their new revolution will afford us. But there is certainly a fair amount of fear mixed up with the hope. What should we expect from the AI revolution. Will AI “replace” us? Will it achieve sentience, consciousness, humanity? And is there a religious dimension to all this? After all, if humans are made in the image of God, what should we make of the kind tech that is made in the image of us?

 

Chaired by Chine McDonald

15:00 Saturday 1 March 2025
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Eve Poole

Dr Eve Poole OBE is Chair of the Woodard Corporation, a family of Christian schools. She has written several books, including Leadersmithing, Buying God, and Robot Souls. Previously she was Chair of Gordonstoun and Third Church Estates Commissioner. Eve has twins and lives in Edinburgh. 

Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer is Senior Fellow at the think tank Theos. He is the author of a number of books, most recently The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What are we actually disagreeing about? (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (SPCK, 2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). He really likes science and religion stuff but is frankly itching to work on something else now.

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Mark Oakley
Archbishop Stephen Cottrell
Paula Hollingsworth
Claire Gilbert
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