Staying Human (eBook)

A Jewish Theology for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Harris Bor (Autor)

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2021
266 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
9781725278622 (ISBN)

Infos

Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human.

Autor

Harris Bor is a Fellow and Lecturer at the London School of Jewish Studies and a barrister (trial advocate) specializing in international arbitration and commercial litigation. He holds a PhD in Theology from Cambridge University, is a rabbinic scholar with the Montefiore Endowment, and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Unniversity and University College London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2021
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: AI • Artificial Intelligence • Doctrines • Halachah • Harris Bor • Heidegger • Jewish ethics • Jewish practice • Jewish Spirituality • Jewish Theology • Judaism • Levinas • Philosophy • Philosophy of Religion • Religion and Science • Religion and technology/AI • Rosenzweig • Spinoza • Staying Human • Superintelligence • Technology • Theology • The Singularity
• ISBN-13: 9781725278622 / 9781725278622