On April 5, Carnegie Mellon students and faculty gathered in a Doherty lecture hall to listen to a discussion on AI and spirituality.
AI has become increasingly popular and integrated into our lives, as college students access Chat-GPT and AI-written articles masquerade as academic writing.
On the panel of AI and spiritualist experts was Maximilian Riesenhuber, a professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University, and Raja Sooriamurthi, a Carnegie Mellon teaching professor for information systems and program director for the decision analytics and systems minor. The panel was moderated by Larry Heimann, a Carnegie Mellon teaching professor for information systems.
The conversation covered a wide range of topics, such as ethics, education, AI and religion.
“What has AI done to me, done to us?” Soorjamurthi asked. “I will answer that in the following way: I play personal and professional roles.” He considered how those roles have “changed as a result of the recent developments of AI.”
The panel was run by the Carnegie Mellon branch of the Veritas Forum, a Christian organization which aims to foster interfaith dialogue and “grow in our understanding of the truth together.”
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