The Dolores Project

By Joshua K. Smith

Welcome to the digital table. This project is an attempt to bring together a wide range of voices to dialogue about technologies like AI and robotics. We talk about some strange thinks here and there,... more

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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.

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May 12, 2023 Robot Uprising? Keep Calm and Ask Kate Darling
#robots #podcasts #society #economics #AI #technology #MIT #science
Should we be worried about our future with robots? Dr. Kate Darling provides some much-needed insight to help us navigate our present and future with machines.
Dr. Kate Darling is a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and author of THE NEW BREED. Her interest is in how technology intersects with society.
Kate’s current work looks at the near-term effects of robotic technology, with a particular interest in law, social, and ethical issues. She has also explored economic issues in intellectual property systems.
She runs experiments, holds workshops, writes, and speaks about some of the more interesting developments in the world of human-robot interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the future.

Twitter: @grok_The New Breed: https://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-History-Animals-Reveals/dp/1250838428/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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May 05, 2023 AI, Self-Improvement, and Technologies of the Soul w/ Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh
#artificialintelligence #technology #soul #selfcare #selfimprovement #selfimage #selfie
In this episode of The Dolores Project, I sit down with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh to discuss the self and AI. Mark is an expert on the philosophy of AI and philosophy.
Please make sure to check out his books on the topic:
AI and Self-Improvement: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Improvement-Technologies-Artificial-Intelligence-Limits/dp/0231206550/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293604&sr=8-5
AI Ethics: https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-MIT-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/0262538199/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293644&sr=8-4
Political Philosophy of AI: https://www.amazon.com/Political-Philosophy-AI-Introduction/dp/1509548548/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mark+coeckelbergh&qid=1683293644&sr=8-3
Bio: Mark Coeckelbergh (Ph.D., University of Birmingham) is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna since 2015 and was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education until 2020. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. From 2014 to 2019 he was also (part-time) Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.
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Blessings,
Josh
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April 27, 2023 Exploring the Intersection of Queer Theory, Disability, and Tech w/ Dr. Max Thornton
What is QueerCrip theory and how does it speak into theology and technology. Today's expert, Dr. Max Thornton, will help us think through these issues. Max is a theologian and philosopher specializing in disability, queerness, gender, and tech. These are really hard conversations to have in such polarizing times, but I'm grateful and hopeful about the dialogue. If you would like to know more about Max and his research, see maxthornton.me
Works:
Religion, Emotion, and Sensation: Religion, Emotion, Sensation (fordhampress.com)
“Trans/Criptions: Gender, Disability, and Liturgical Experience” in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (August 2019)
“Gender: A Public Feeling?” in Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Stephen Moore and Karen Bray (2019)
“The Porcelain Throne” for Political Theology Network (2018)

Thanks for listening and your support!

Blessings,

Josh

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April 19, 2023 AI, Theology, and Relationships w/ Dr. Noreen Herzfeld
#AI #theology #chatgpt #soicalmedia #family #computerscience #relationships

How does theology and AI impact our relationships with one another and with God? Dr. Noreen Herzfeld has much to say into these topics. Enjoy the show.
Noreen Herzfeld is the Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professor of Science and Religion at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Herzfeld is a research associate at ZRS Koper and the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa.
Herzfeld teaches in both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Theology at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, reflecting her two primary research interests—the intersection of religion and technology, and religion and conflict. Topics include computer theory, computer ethics, theology in the light of science, the spirituality and politics of Islam, and ministry in a technological age.
Herzfeld is the author of In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (Fortress, 2002), Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World (Templeton, 2009), The Limits of Perfection in Technology, Religion, and Science (Pandora, 2010), and editor of Religion and the New Technologies (MDPI, 2017). She has published numerous articles and book chapters and is a frequent speaker on the prospects for AI, ethical issues in technology, and Islam. She is the founder and a writer for the Avon Hills Salon.
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April 04, 2023 Race, Tech, and The Sound of Culture w/ Louis Chude-Sokei
#race #robots #technology #creator #podcasts #philosophy #reggae #sound #alien #artificialintelligence #slavery #resistance
How should we think about race and technology? As we learn from Dr. Chude-Sokei, race and tech have always been together. Found out how and what that means for society in this episode.
Bio:
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose books includes The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2006, finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the George Freedley Award), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2016) and the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021). His public and literary writing has appeared in various national and international venues including, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle, to The Believer, The Chicago Quarterly, South Africa’s Chimurenga Chronic and The Daily Gleaner in Jamaica. His work has been translated into multiple languages, including Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian and Korean. He is the Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies in the United States.
Chude-Sokei has collaborated with numerous artists, performers, and programmers on projects focused on sound, music, race and technology. This includes legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones who is adapting sections of The Sound of Culture for performance, and iconic Berlin electronic artists, Mouse on Mars with whom he has produced sound installations and the celebrated album Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (Thrill Jockey Records 2021). Chude-Sokei is also founder of the international sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, and is the lead artist/curator of “Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your Attention,” a year-long sound art project in Nuremberg, Germany, focused on Nazi Party historical sites, for which he won the Kulturstiftun Des Bundes Award from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. He is also a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival.
Links:
The Sound of Culture - https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Culture-Diaspora-Black-Technopoetics/dp/0819575771
Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6q8RxZc2hHWfjZ0yRaXG9o
AI Project mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8N-UNJh9Vc&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&feature=emb_logo
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Josh
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March 08, 2023 How Should the Local Church Think About Digital Media? w/ Heidi A. Campbell
The COVID-19 pandemic forced churches to move to online platforms. Many leaders where not ready nor prepared for this transition. In the wake of already high tensions with new media, there was much doubt about the use of social media, YouTube, and smartphones as a way to extend the ministries of the local church. Thankfully, one scholar (and many others), Heidi Campbell has been studying the impact of new technology on pastors and the local church for several decades. Dr Campbell is Professor of Communication and an affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She was also named a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University in 2018. She teaches undergrad and graduate courses in Media studies, focused on communication technologies, digital methods and theories, as well as in her specialization of media, religion and culture studies. In 2017 she received a Transformational Teaching Award from Texas A&M's Center for Teaching Excellence. She has written over 10 books and hundreds of articles. She is a voice that communities leaders need in this moment of social disruption.
Find her recent works here: https://www.drheidicampbell.com/books Book mentioned in the episode: https://chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334061595/ecclesiology-for-a-digital-church
Twitter: @heidiacampbell
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March 01, 2023 Are Robots Conscious? Does Sophia Have a Brain? w/Thomas Telving
What is the nature of consciousness? Can a robot or Alien or computer be conscious? Absurd as all of this sounds, in light of recent events with ChatGpt and LaMDA, the hard question of "what is like to be" a machine is back on the table. In this episode of The Dolores Project, I am joined by Thomas Telving. Thomas is a Copywriter and philosopher working in the area of Digital Content. His recent book, “Killing Sophia: Empathy, Consciousness, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots” (published by University of Southern Denmark Studies) is available in Danish and English. Book: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Sophia-Consciousness-Intelligent-Philosophy/dp/8740834220?ref_=ast_author_mpb
YouTube: @ThomasTelving
Twitter: @ThomasTelving
Thanks for listening!
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45min
February 22, 2023 How Should We Think About Porn & Tech? w/ Dr. Kathleen Richardson
#AI #technology #robots #love #ethics #philosophy
In this episode of the Dolores Project, I am joined by Dr. Kathleen Richardson, founder of the Campaign Against Porn Robots.
Kathleen Richardson is a Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI and part of the Europe-wide DREAM project (Development of Robot-Enhance Therapy for Children with Autism).   Kathleen completed her PhD at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her fieldwork was an investigation of the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After her PhD Kathleen was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (BAPDF), a position she held at the University College London. Kathleen's postdoctoral work was an investigation into the therapeutic uses of robots for children with autism spectrum conditions. In 2013, she was part of the Digital Bridges Project, an innovative AHRC funded technology and arts collaboration between Watford Palace Theatre and the University of Cambridge. Kathleen is author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines. Kathleen has completed her second book Challenging Sociality.
Follow her work at https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/ and http://kathleenrichardson.org/
Make sure to check out her recent publication: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19381-1#tocaboca
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by my guests do not necessarily reflect my views. The nature of this project is to challenge our assumptions about tech, philosophy, and theology.   Josh
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June 08, 2022 Let's Talk About Sex Robots w/ Dr. Kate Ott
In this episode of the Dolores Project, I am joined by Dr. Kate Ott to discuss her most recent research on sex robots from a Christian perspective.

A feminist and Christian ethicist, Dr. Ott is an expert on the formation of moral communities with specializations in technology, children and youth, sexuality, pedagogy, and professional ethics. She lectures and leads workshops across North America on technology and sexuality issues that are related to faith formation for young adults, teens and parents, and religious educators and professionals.

Follow her work at kateott.org

Purchase her book here: https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7846/sex-tech-and-faith.aspx

Twitter: @Kates_Take
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February 14, 2022 Death by Drones w/ John R. Emery
John R. Emery is an Assistant Professor of International Security in the department ofInternational and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on issues of technology in international relations, ethics of war, security studies, nuclear wargaming, human-machine interaction, and political theory. He is a member of the 2021-2024 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Mid-Career Cadre, which brings together nuclear experts from technical, policy, academic, and military backgrounds, Previously, Dr. Emery was a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine where he was also a Tobis Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. In the 2017-2018 academic year he was a part of a National Science Foundation EAGER grant that brought together an interdisciplinary research group to assess the impact of technological innovations in AI, Big Data, and algorithms on law and the social sciences.

He has published widely in edited volumes and academic journals, including Ethics & International Affairs, Texas National Security Review, Critical Military Studies, Peace Review, and Law & Policy. His research during the 2020-2021 academic year at CISAC on ethics and 1950s nuclear wargaming at the RAND Corporation was the runner-up winner of the Janne Nolan Prize for the best article on national security and international affairs, presented by Johns Hopkins SAIS Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, in collaboration with CSIS. As a Tobis Fellow at UC Irvine, he completed an article entitled “Probabilities Toward Death” that analyzed the rise of collateral damage estimation algorithms and the impact of human-machine interactions on ethics of due care in U.S. warfare.
Articles Mention: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23337486.2020.1809251?journalCode=rcms20
https://tnsr.org/2021/09/moral-choices-without-moral-language-1950s-political-military-wargaming-at-the-rand-corporation/

Follow: @EmeryJohnR on Twitter
Contact: [email protected]
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FAQs about The Dolores Project:

How many episodes does The Dolores Project have?

The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.