What Is the AI Working Group?
In 2010, the Arendt Center hosted a groundbreaking conference “Human Being in an Inhuman Age,” dedicated to thinking about how the rise of smart machines and artificial intelligence are transforming what it means to be human. Motivated by Hannah Arendt’s fundamental questioning of how the rise of science and automation threaten the human capacity for freedom, action, and politics, the conference asked how the humanist inquiry into the meaning of life is threatened once the very capacities that make us human can be done better by machines.