Richard Sibbes quote
Technology - I Won't Let You Down
In the
summer of 2008, I attended a lecture on artificial intelligence and Christian
faith at Cambridge
University. At the C.S.
Lewis Conference's annual Summer Institutes, Nigel Cameron of Washington's Center
for Policy on Emerging Technology gave us a cursory glimpse of some of the
fast-developing advancements in the field of A.I. His primary purpose was to introduce and to
explain a few of the real and challenging ethical dilemmas that these
technologies were posing for researchers, academic institutions, and political
bodies. For those of us who were on the outside looking in, it was almost a bit
surreal. First, the technologies that were already being developed sounded like
they were coming out of a sci-fi novel. It was hard to believe that we would
see some of these things in our lifetime. However, we were told and we are now
seeing that technology is advancing far faster than most of our imaginations. Second,
and probably for the reason that the advancements seemed so…
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