Megan Sullivan

And they wrote an essay telling me that what's special about being a human being is the fact that we can think abstract thoughts and that we can do reasoning and that we can be creative.

I would have given them an A on that paper.

I would have been like, that's a great answer.

Mm-hmm.

Well, Manoush, I have a piece of software on my iPhone right now that I don't know if it can think, but it can definitely do logic way better than I can.

It can be creative.

It can make creative memes and pictures.

It knows a whole, it has a lot more knowledge than I will ever have in my life.

It is not a person.

It does not have the dignity that I have.

But there's this fascinating question we're all faced with right now of like, what is special about me if it's not those things that I just named, if there are things that software can do now?

AI is a field day for philosophers because it definitely feels like we've been training for these questions our whole lives.

There are two parts of the conversation that we're hosting out here.

And where Notre Dame is now getting much, much, much more active in debates about AI ethics.

One part of the conversation is working with the frontier labs and the tech companies that are really curious about what philosophers and theologians think about artificial intelligence.

And you're right.

Some of the companies, I won't name them on this podcast, they just care about making money.

They do not care about anything else.

And they're, you know, they're hopeless.

You don't want to take meetings with them.