Patrick Kain
"Artificial Intelligence and the Appearance of Wisdom: Connecting AI with Our Knowledge of what is Good"
Krannert Auditorium - Room 140: 2 - 2:45 PM
Our machines reflect and reveal (and affect) our conceptions of what is good. The thought of machines with general intelligence outstripping our own triggers visions of a bright new era or nightmares of unmitigated disaster. How might such machines, functioning as intended, be related to our knowledge of what is good? Might our knowledge of what is good inform our design and use of increasingly smart machines?
Bio: Patrick Kain is an associate professor of philosophy at Purdue University. His areas of specialization include ethics, the history of moral philosophy (esp. the work of Immanuel Kant), and the philosophy of religion. He has recently coedited an interdisciplinary collection of essays on moral and religious knowledge, and is working on a book on Kant's moral philosophy. Kain's scholarship has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation.