Blurred Lines: AI and the End of Humanity - Esmé Partridge and Hasan Azad, PhD

As AI systems are increasingly shaping our lives - sometimes in obvious ways, but more often in unobvious ways - where are they taking us as a species?
What are the epistemological roots of AI?
How can traditional metaphysics - not least, Islamic metaphysics - help us to make sense of a world ever-increasingly mediated through artificially intelligent systems?
Are we on a path to our collective destruction?
What hopes do we have - if at all - of stemming the tide, and turning (*returning*) to a more holistic mode of being human?
The brilliant Esmé Partridge and Hasan Azad, PhD, discuss.
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Esmé L. K. Partridge is an undergraduate student of Religion at SOAS, University of London, and a writer on Islamic studies, mysticism and the place of religious thought in modernity.
She has been published in The Journal of The Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, ‘Alif: Traditional Wisdom In Review, Muslim Institute and The Royal Society of Arts.
Her work can be accessed via her website, www.esmelkpartridge.com, and you can also find her on Twitter at @EsmeLKPartridge.

[@huzeyifaaman7439]

Thank you so much for this content. very intriguing conversations! I'm surprised you guys didn't mention Nueralink and would love your opinions on it

[@hansandersonfourth]

Thank you so much, Huzeyifa Aman! Good point! We're looking to do another episode on transhumanism. Are there any other topics that you would for us to cover? Peace 🙏🏽

[@aqibjavaid5291]

I just wonder Azad about the lighting in your room?

[@hansandersonfourth]

It's a secret :)