The Importance of Human Virtues

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I love the idea that we could get an articulate understanding of the human good and build the technology that will promote that. It sounds like full employment for philosophers, right? So people in my field, that we will be in demand. I guess my hope would be even if we didn't have complete consensus, if we could at least have a little more of a shared understanding of what we might call human virtues. That a human being characterized by compassion or kindness is something desirable.

A.I. is no longer the stuff of science fiction. From Siri and Alexa to Chat GPT, our world is now inundated with artificial intelligence. One senses that it’s time to think more deeply about A.I. — its implications and its assumptions.

In this episode, you'll hear an excerpt from a Forum event at Iowa State University from March 2023. Josh Swamidass (WashU), a medical doctor and computer scientist, discusses the role of artificial intelligence today with Clark Wolf (Iowa State), a bioethicist and philosopher. Their conversation is moderatored by Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), a political science professor.

Watch the full Forum event here.
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