Disputatio on Artificial Intelligence

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8:30 am: Gathering

9 am: Welcome

9:15 am: Featured Speakers

10:30 am: Break

11 am: Community Worship

12 pm: Community Lunch

1 pm: Concurrent Conversations

2 pm: Concluding Remarks

In a digital age that is always reforming, artificial intelligence (AI) has become part and parcel of living in modernity. Given its impact, as well as overwhelming enthusiasm for and protest against, it becomes necessary to ask: how do we best live in the world with the  reality of AI? How do we respond to it faithfully and theologically? How do we equip leaders to accompany people in the decisions they will face? To explore this, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary will host a Disputatio on Artificial Intelligence following the medieval questio model in collaboration with powerful voices in medicine, ecology, and higher education. The events of the day include the main disputatio, worship, lunch, and a variety of themed generative conversations hosted by theology and AI experts. Join us online or in Berkeley on Wednesday, February 25 from 8:30 am - 3 pm for a dynamic day of inquiry!

Why a disputatio? 

We love the way our Medieval ancestors parsed a question, raising sometimes contradictory considerations and distinguishing between this and that. It was, if you'll permit the metaphor, a kind of decision tree that fostered vigorous thinking about how theology shapes daily discipleship. This method is so much more sophisticated that the either/or soundbite competition for media attention we have today.

Elizabeth and Harvey Mohrenweiser Lecture: Ethical Decisions at the Interface of Scientific Knowledge and Medical Practice Require Participation of Individuals of Faith

The annual Mohrenweiser lecture addresses moral and ethical decision points in the nexus between the practices of faith, science and medicine. Dr. Harvey Mohrenweiser spent over 30 years directing studies to identify and characterize the genetic variation that exists in human populations, with the ultimate goal of understanding how genetic variation relates to environmental exposures and the risk of common diseases (read more).

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