“I think we may have created something that will end up shaping us more than we shape it.”
Is AI a revolutionary tool or an existential threat? A watershed moment in human history or an over-hyped bubble? Is it radically enhancing or fundamentally degrading our lives – or neither?
There’s a lot of confident commentary out there, and the CPX team … has thoughts. But in this episode of Life & Faith, rather than making any pronouncements or predictions, we thought we’d simply go and ask some people to tell us some stories. We reached out to a few friends of CPX in various fields to hear how AI has impacted their work so far, what they’re most keen for or concerned about, and how their pre-existing beliefs and commitments shape what they see when they look at this new(ish) technology.
Listen in to these conversations with psychologist Leisa Aitken, psychiatrist Neil Jeyasingam, school deputy principal Sarah Golsby-Smith, economist and academic Gordon Menzies, and Presbyterian pastor Nathan Campbell on the why, when, and how of both embracing and resisting AI.