Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Churches

Chair

Murdo Macdonald

Policy Officer of the Society, Religion and Technology, the Church of Scotland

Speakers

Mr Alexander Martin Mussgnug

PhD candidate, School of Informatics/ School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Title: What Counts? Models, Measurement, and Machine Learning

Yuxin Liu

PhD candidate, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Title: Artificial moral advisor and moral enhancement

Prof Michael Rovatsos

Professor of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics, and Director of The Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh

Title: AI: Vision and Reality

Dr James Eglinton

Meldrum Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Title: The Church and the Metaverse

Rev Dr Michael Fuller

Lecturer in Science and Religion, and Science and Religion MSc Programme Director, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Title: AI, Big Data and Theology

Dr Simeon Ximian Xu

Kenneth and Isabel Morrison Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Theology and AI Ethics, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Title: When AI Ministers Come: Pastoral Care and Responsibility

Register

To register for this event, please email Michael Fuller (Michael.Fuller@ed.ac.uk) and Simeon Xu (Simeon.Xu@ed.ac.uk) by Wednesday 15 February