On Zoom

Speakers: Lydia Chilton (Columbia University); Philip Butler (Iliff School of Theology);  Timothy Beal (Case Western Reserve University)

Moderator: Lydia Liu (Columbia University)

Cosponsors:  Center for Religion and Media at New York University 

“AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created.” And “The AI Monster Awakens.” These are just two recent headlines (in Newsweek and the Seattle Times, respectively) following on the heels of Chat GPT. But the monster imaginary, and monster theory, has long informed our perceptions of artificial intelligence. As part of the IRCPL/CRM series on “Monsters,” this panel at Columbia explores the changing role of artificial intelligence in relation to its human creators.