The Dolores Project: Recent Episodes
Joshua K. Smith
This project seeks to unify a wide body of scholarship on robots and rights that will help the everyday consumer understand their part in regulating AI, robots, and new technology. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joshua-k-smith6/support
robots #podcasts #society #economics #AI #technology #MIT #science Should we be worried about our future with robots? Dr. Kate Darling provides some much-needed insight to help us navigate our present and future with machines. Dr. Kate Darling is a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and author of THE NEW BREED. Her interest is in how technology intersects with society.Kate’s current work looks at the near-term effects of robotic technology, with a particular interest in law, social, and ethical issues. She has also explored economic issues in intellectual property systems. She runs experiments, holds workshops, writes, and speaks about some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the future. Twitter: @grok_The New Breed: https://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-History-Animals-Reveals/dp/1250838428/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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artificialintelligence #technology #soul #selfcare #selfimprovement #selfimage #selfie
In this episode of The Dolores Project, I sit down with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh to discuss the self and AI. Mark is an expert on the philosophy of AI and philosophy.
Please make sure to check out his books on the topic:
AI and Self-Improvement: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Improvement-Technologies-Artificial-Intelligence-Limits/dp/0231206550/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293604&sr=8-5
AI Ethics: https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-MIT-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/0262538199/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293644&sr=8-4
Political Philosophy of AI: https://www.amazon.com/Political-Philosophy-AI-Introduction/dp/1509548548/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293644&sr=8-3
Bio: Mark Coeckelbergh (Ph.D., University of Birmingham) is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna since 2015 and was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education until 2020. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. From 2014 to 2019 he was also (part-time) Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.
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What is QueerCrip theory and how does it speak into theology and technology. Today's expert, Dr. Max Thornton, will help us think through these issues. Max is a theologian and philosopher specializing in disability, queerness, gender, and tech. These are really hard conversations to have in such polarizing times, but I'm grateful and hopeful about the dialogue. If you would like to know more about Max and his research, see maxthornton.me
Works:
Religion, Emotion, and Sensation: Religion, Emotion, Sensation (fordhampress.com)
“Trans/Criptions: Gender, Disability, and Liturgical Experience” in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly(August 2019)
“Gender: A Public Feeling?” in Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Stephen Moore and Karen Bray (2019)
“The Porcelain Throne” for Political Theology Network (2018)
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AI #theology #chatgpt #soicalmedia #family #computerscience #relationships
How does theology and AI impact our relationships with one another and with God? Dr. Noreen Herzfeld has much to say into these topics. Enjoy the show.
Noreen Herzfeld is the Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professor of Science and Religion at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Herzfeld is a research associate at ZRS Koper and the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa.
Herzfeld teaches in both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Theology at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, reflecting her two primary research interests—the intersection of religion and technology, and religion and conflict. Topics include computer theory, computer ethics, theology in the light of science, the spirituality and politics of Islam, and ministry in a technological age.
Herzfeld is the author of In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (Fortress, 2002), Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World (Templeton, 2009), The Limits of Perfection in Technology, Religion, and Science (Pandora, 2010), and editor of Religion and the New Technologies (MDPI, 2017). She has published numerous articles and book chapters and is a frequent speaker on the prospects for AI, ethical issues in technology, and Islam. She is the founder and a writer for the Avon Hills Salon.
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race #robots #technology #creator #podcasts #philosophy #reggae #sound #alien #artificialintelligence #slavery #resistance How should we think about race and technology? As we learn from Dr. Chude-Sokei, race and tech have always been together. Found out how and what that means for society in this episode. Bio: Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose books includes The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2006, finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the George Freedley Award), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) and the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021). His public and literary writing has appeared in various national and international venues including, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle, to The Believer, The Chicago Quarterly, South Africa’s Chimurenga Chronic and The Daily Gleaner in Jamaica. His work has been translated into multiple languages, including Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian and Korean. He is the Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies in the United States.Chude-Sokei has collaborated with numerous artists, performers, and programmers on projects focused on sound, music, race and technology. This includes legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones who is adapting sections of The Sound of Culture for performance, and iconic Berlin electronic artists, Mouse on Mars with whom he has produced sound installations and the celebrated album Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (Thrill Jockey Records 2021). Chude-Sokei is also founder of the international sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, and is the lead artist/curator of “Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your Attention,” a year-long sound art project in Nuremberg, Germany, focused on Nazi Party historical sites, for which he won the Kulturstiftun Des Bundes Award from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. He is also a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival.Links: The Sound of Culture - https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Culture-Diaspora-Black-Technopoetics/dp/0819575771Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6q8RxZc2hHWfjZ0yRaXG9oAI Project mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8N-UNJh9Vc&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&feature=emb_logoIf you liked this content, remember to support us by liking, sharing, and subscribing!Josh
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced churches to move to online platforms. Many leaders where not ready nor prepared for this transition. In the wake of already high tensions with new media, there was much doubt about the use of social media, YouTube, and smartphones as a way to extend the ministries of the local church. Thankfully, one scholar (and many others), Heidi Campbell has been studying the impact of new technology on pastors and the local church for several decades. Dr Campbell is Professor of Communication and an affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She was also named a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University in 2018. She teaches undergrad and graduate courses in Media studies, focused on communication technologies, digital methods and theories, as well as in her specialization of media, religion and culture studies. In 2017 she received a Transformational Teaching Award from Texas A&M's Center for Teaching Excellence. She has written over 10 books and hundreds of articles. She is a voice that communities leaders need in this moment of social disruption. Find her recent works here: https://www.drheidicampbell.com/books Book mentioned in the episode: https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334061595/ecclesiology-for-a-digital-church Twitter: @heidiacampbell If you would like to support the show, please consider subscribing and partnership through https://www.patreon.com/thedoloresproject?fan_la--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua-k-smith6/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua-k-smith6/support
What is the nature of consciousness? Can a robot or Alien or computer be conscious? Absurd as all of this sounds, in light of recent events with ChatGpt and LaMDA, the hard question of "what is like to be" a machine is back on the table. In this episode of The Dolores Project, I am joined by Thomas Telving. Thomas is a Copywriter and philosopher working in the area of Digital Content. His recent book, “Killing Sophia: Empathy, Consciousness, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots” (published by University of Southern Denmark Studies) is available in Danish and English. Book: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Sophia-Consciousness-Intelligent-Philosophy/dp/8740834220?ref_=ast_author_mpb
YouTube: @ThomasTelving
Twitter: @ThomasTelving
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AI #technology #robots #love #ethics #philosophy
In this episode of the Dolores Project, I am joined by Dr. Kathleen Richardson, founder of the Campaign Against Porn Robots.
Kathleen Richardson is a Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI and part of the Europe-wide DREAM project (Development of Robot-Enhance Therapy for Children with Autism). Kathleen completed her PhD at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her fieldwork was an investigation of the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After her PhD Kathleen was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (BAPDF), a position she held at the University College London. Kathleen's postdoctoral work was an investigation into the therapeutic uses of robots for children with autism spectrum conditions. In 2013, she was part of the Digital Bridges Project, an innovative AHRC funded technology and arts collaboration between Watford Palace Theatre and the University of Cambridge. Kathleen is author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Kathleen has completed her second book Challenging Sociality.
Follow her work at https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/ and http://kathleenrichardson.org/
Make sure to check out her recent publication: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19381-1#tocaboca
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by my guests do not necessarily reflect my views. The nature of this project is to challenge our assumptions about tech, philosophy, and theology. Josh
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In this episode of the Dolores Project, I am joined by Dr. Kate Ott to discuss her most recent research on sex robots from a Christian perspective.
A feminist and Christian ethicist, Dr. Ott is an expert on the formation of moral communities with specializations in technology, children and youth, sexuality, pedagogy, and professional ethics. She lectures and leads workshops across North America on technology and sexuality issues that are related to faith formation for young adults, teens and parents, and religious educators and professionals.
Follow her work at kateott.org
Purchase her book here: https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7846/sex-tech-and-faith.aspx
Twitter: @Kates_Take
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John R. Emery is an Assistant Professor of International Security in the department ofInternational and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on issues of technology in international relations, ethics of war, security studies, nuclear wargaming, human-machine interaction, and political theory. He is a member of the 2021-2024 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Mid-Career Cadre, which brings together nuclear experts from technical, policy, academic, and military backgrounds, Previously, Dr. Emery was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine where he was also a Tobis Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. In the 2017-2018 academic year he was a part of a National Science Foundation EAGER grant that brought together an interdisciplinary research group to assess the impact of technological innovations in AI, Big Data, and algorithms on law and the social sciences.
He has published widely in edited volumes and academic journals, including Ethics & International Affairs, Texas National Security Review, Critical Military Studies, Peace Review, and Law & Policy. His research during the 2020-2021 academic year at CISAC on ethics and 1950s nuclear wargaming at the RAND Corporation was the runner-up winner of the Janne Nolan Prize for the best article on national security and international affairs, presented by Johns Hopkins SAIS Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, in collaboration with CSIS. As a Tobis Fellow at UC Irvine, he completed an article entitled “Probabilities Toward Death” that analyzed the rise of collateral damage estimation algorithms and the impact of human-machine interactions on ethics of due care in U.S. warfare.
Articles Mention: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23337486.2020.1809251?journalCode=rcms20
https://tnsr.org/2021/09/moral-choices-without-moral-language-1950s-political-military-wargaming-at-the-rand-corporation/
Follow: @EmeryJohnR on Twitter
Contact: john.emery@ou.edu
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Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science, a Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Concurrent Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She will complete two books while a Distinguished Fellow of the NDIAS: Mary Shelley and the Politics of Making Artificial Life: Political Science Fictions after “Frankenstein” and Portraits of Wollstonecraft. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (SUNY, 2006), Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Penn State, 2009, co-edited with Jill Locke), the first scholarly edition of Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston by Hannah Mather Crocker (NEHGS, 2011, co-edited with Sarah L. Houser), a scholarly edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Yale, 2014), Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (Yale, 2016), Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in “Frankenstein” (Penn, 2017), and The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, forthcoming 2019, and co-edited with Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee). She has also authored over fifty articles, chapters, essays, and reviews, in venues such as Aeon Magazine, The Washington Post, Political Theory, History of European Ideas, The American Political Science Review, and Reproductive Ethics II. She was a recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship in 2015-2016 and the New England Research Fellowship Consortium’s Colonial Society award in 2009-2010. She is currently a president-elect of the Women and Politics research section of the American Political Science Association. She was elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014 and a non-resident member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts in 2012. With Sarah L. Houser, she won the triennial Edition Award from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers in 2011. In 2014, she won the Okin-Young award from the American Political Science Association for the best article published in feminist political theory during the previous year. She is a member of the 1993 class of Marshall Scholars and an alumna of Bowdoin, Cambridge, and Yale.
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Dr. Schuurman is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, part of the leadership team for the West Michigan ASA chapter, an associate fellow of the The Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, senior member of the IEEE, member of the ACM, CES, ACMS, a book review editor for Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, a regular contributor to the Christian Scholars Review blog, and a regular columnist for Christian Courier.
Books:
https://cs.calvin.edu/activities/books/fieldguide/
https://www.ivpress.com/shaping-a-digital-world
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About Jacob:
Jacob joined chambers in October 2018. He is a former solicitor-advocate, having qualified in 2014. He has advised individuals, corporates and sovereigns in a variety of commercial matters involving both litigation and arbitration. Jacob accepts instructions in all areas of chambers’ practice and is happy working both as sole counsel and as part of a team.
Previously, Jacob worked in the Dispute Resolution department at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP and as a judicial assistant to Lord Mance at the UK Supreme Court. Jacob is the author of Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which has been cited by Lord Hodge and Lord Sales in extrajudicial speeches on the legal impacts of AI. He is a contributing author to The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell, 2020). Jacob is also the co-author, with Lord Mance, of Privy Council Practice (OUP, 2017).
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@RobotRules
@JacobTurner1
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John Danaher is a lecturer in the Law School. He holds a BCL from University College Cork (2006); an LLM from Trinity College Dublin (2007); and a PhD from University College Cork (2011). He was lecturer in law at Keele University in the UK from 2011 until 2014. He joined NUI Galway in July 2014.
John's research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and produces a podcast with the same title. He also writes for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
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Alan works at UWE spans Research and Public Engagement. He conducts research in Cognitive Robotics within the Bristol Robotics Lab. He is a member of the Science Communication Unit, and undertake public engagement work centred upon robotics. Robot ethics is a significant focus of his current work, including the development of new standards.
I also blog at: http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/
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Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2012. His dissertation, on Kant’s ethics, was awarded the Pro-quest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Currently, Nyholm is working on the ethics of automated driving, human-robot collaboration, deep brain stimulation (including its effect on the self), the ordinary concept(s) of “true love”, and disability and the goods of life.
Book: Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612267/Humans-and-Robots-Ethics-Agency-and-Anthropomorphism
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Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics. In this episode we discuss the limitations of granting robots rights and the function of insurance in the face of liability claims. For any questions for Dr. Schafer please see: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafer
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Hendrik Kempt is a PostDoc working in the ethics of AI in medical diagnostics. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at HHU Düsseldorf (B.A.) and Humboldt University Berlin (M.A.). During his graduate studies, working on prescriptivism in metaethics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, he went on to be a visiting scholar at different universities in the United States (University of Missouri – Columbia, MO, University of Southern California, Los Angeles/CA, and Brown University, Providence/RI).
His area of specialization (AOS) is in applied ethics (mostly in AI ethics, energy ethics, medical ethics), metaethics and philosophy of language, with areas of competence (AOC) in social philosophy, as well as the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, and philosophy of religion.
He is a member of the AISB, SPT, a fellow at FoKoS of the University of Siegen, and a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Book Link:
Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
https://www.amazon.com/Chatbots-Domestication-AI-Relational-Approach/dp/3030562891/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hendrik+kempt&qid=1626098911&sr=8-1
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Join me for a brilliant discussion with emerging scholar Cindy Friedman as we talk about robot rights and the reasons for considering a robot morally. Cindy is a PhD student at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Research Consortium. Follow her on Twitter at @Cindyy2303.
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In this episode I am joined by Joshua C. Gellers who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Florida. We talk about the rights of animals, nature, and our concerns and hopes for our future with non-human entities. There is a lot to unpack in this episode so grab a pen and paper and get comfortable.
I highly encourage you to download his most recent book, "Rights for Robots" https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429288159/rights-robots-joshua-gellers
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In this episode I chat with Dr. Simon Chesterman, a distinguished lawyer and prolific writer. He is the dean of law at the National University of Singapore and Senior Director of AI Governance with AI Singapore. I hope you enjoy the episode and will consider picking up Simon's book coming out in July, "We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law" by Cambridge University Publishing. http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/e-commerce-law/we-robots-regulating-artificial-intelligence-and-limits-law?format=HB&isbn=9781316517680 For more information about Simon and his publications see https://www.simonchesterman.com/ and follow him on Twitter at @ProfChesterman Thanks again for listening!
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On the first episode of the Dolores Project I interview The Godfather of Robot Rights literature. He literally wrote the book on robot rights (MIT Press). Dr. Gunkel is a distinguished scholar and writer of philosophy, communication theory, and of course, AI and robots.
Make sure to checkout David's book and information at gunkelweb.com!
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robot-rights
Twitter: @David_Gunkel
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