Slides from a talk given at Stone Hill Church on November 3, 2018.
If you are interested to learn more you can read our report and discussion guide here: https://medium.com/ai-and-christianity/artificial-intelligence-in-christian-thought-and-practice-20ec8635a94f
6. hashtags that actively promote self-harm,
such as “thinspiration,” “probulimia,” and
“proanorexia,” are no longer searchable.
Instagram (2012) Instagram’s New Guidelines Against Self-Harm Images & Accounts. Instagram blog, April 20, 2012.
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40million
total users 04/2012
55million
internet users 2012
7. “
Chancellor, S., Pater, J. A., Clear, T., Gilbert, E., & De Choudhury, M. (2016). #thyghgapp: Instagram Content Moderation and Lexical Variation in
Pro-Eating Disorder Communities. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp.
1201–1213). ACM
Communities adopting lexical variants
[e.g. who worked around the search ban]
were also found to show increased social
participation and engagement compared
to those around the moderated tags
12. Basics of
Artificial
Intelligence
Relating to
Artificial Persons
Machine
Consciousness
Counseling &
Spiritual Care
Work, Creativity,
Purpose
Sin, Justice &
Religious
Freedom
Global
Understanding &
Cooperation
Finance, Charity,
and Fairness
J. Nathan Matias
(Princeton)
Lydia Manikonda
(Arizona State)
Kenneth Arnold
(Harvard)
Scott Hale
(Oxford)
medium.com/ai-and-christianity
Artificial Intelligence
in Christian Thought
& Practice
14. General AI is useful
if you want to make
movies
Narrow AI is useful if
you want to make
money
15. Computers will
need the ability to
recognize human
emotion, ideally at
the same level
that people can
Picard, R. W. (1997). Affective computing. MIT Press.
16.
17. Sharif, M., Bhagavatula, S., Bauer, L., & Reiter, M. K. (2016, October). Accessorize to a crime: Real and stealthy attacks on state-of-
the-art face recognition. 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1528-1540). ACM.
Su, J., Vargas, D. V., & Kouichi, S. (2017). One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08864.
22. tripods… [with]
wheels of gold
under them all that
they might go of
their own selves to
the assemblies of
the gods, and come
back again
golden handmaids
also who worked for
him, and were like
real young women,
with sense and
reason, voice also
and strength
Homer’s Illiad, Book XVIII. Translated by Samuel Butler
Infrastructure Persons
27. “Whoever is righteous has
regard for the life of his
beast, but the mercy of the
wicked is cruel.
Proverbs 12:10
28. If we treat animals in
inhumane ways, we
become inhumane
persons. This logically
extends to the
treatment of robotic
companions
Darling, K., Law, R., Calo, R., Froomkin, M., & Kerr, I. (2014).
Extending legal protection to social Robots. IEEE Spectrum.
29. If people develop
attachments to their
robotic companions,
can the companies…
exploit this
attachment?
Darling, K., Law, R., Calo, R., Froomkin, M., & Kerr, I. (2014).
Extending legal protection to social Robots. IEEE Spectrum.
30.
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33.
34. Questions for Christians
- How should we think about the morality
and consequences of how we treat
artificial persons?
- Can Christianity offer ways to think about
creating beings that include relationships
other than servitude?
37. “
Any advertiser running election-
related or issue ads …
must complete the authorization
process required by Facebook.
Facebook
38. “Perfect Enforcement”
Zittrain, J. (2008). The future of the internet--and how to stop it. Yale University Press.
trying to detect or prevent
every single case of rule-
breaking rather than waiting
for a report of wrongdoing
39. - copyright
- nonconsensual intimate imagery
- election advertising
- mental health risks
- …
“Perfect Enforcement”
Zittrain, J. (2008). The future of the internet--and how to stop it. Yale University Press.
40.
41. Matias, J. Nathan, Hounsel, Austin, Hopkins, Melissa. (2018) Do Big Social Media Companies Have Effective Ad Policies? TheAtlantic
42. Kirchner, J. A., Surya Mattu, Jeff Larson, Lauren. (2016). Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals.
And it’s Biased Against Blacks. ProPublica.
44. “Blessed is the one
whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is
covered.
Psalm 32:1-2
45. Allen, Marshall. (2018) From Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting. ProPublica
“
People are made in the image of
God and that each human life holds
incredible value.
When I learned that medical
mistakes are one of the leading
causes of death in America, I called
attention to the problem.
46. Allen, Marshall. (2018) From Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting. ProPublica
“
The first to speak in court sounds
right — until the cross-examination
begins
Prov 18>17
47. Questions for Christians
- What can Christians offer a world that
expects machines to detect or predict
our moral and legal actions?
- How can Christians monitor and protect
people from unjust AI systems?
53. Basics of
Artificial
Intelligence
Relating to
Artificial Persons
Machine
Consciousness
Counseling &
Spiritual Care
Work, Creativity,
Purpose
Sin, Justice &
Religious
Freedom
Global
Understanding &
Cooperation
Finance, Charity,
and Fairness
J. Nathan Matias
(Princeton)
Lydia Manikonda
(Arizona State)
Kenneth Arnold
(Harvard)
Scott Hale
(Oxford)
medium.com/ai-and-christianity
Artificial Intelligence
in Christian Thought
& Practice
