The rise of AI in education makes us ask fundamental questions about ourselves. What is human nature, and what is education? In this series with Teachers College doctoral students Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto, we will investigate the nature of AI and how learning shapes us.
The second session will focus on how Islamic philosophy can inform our understanding of integrating artificial intelligence into our lives, through a contemporary interpretation of the medieval scholar al-Ghazali.
On Wednesday, November 4, at 12 PM, join Ahmed Almadlouh and Jensen Okimoto (Columbia) for this second lunch session, reading Adnan Abbasi’s “The Prayer the Machine Cannot Pray.”
Series Overview
Wednesday, October 28 at 12 PM: Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”
Wednesday, November 4 at 12 PM: Adnan Abbasi, “The Prayer the Machine Cannot Pray”
Wednesday, November 11 at 12 PM: Eva Brann, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic
Wednesday, November 18 at 12 PM: Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking