The Religion of AI Observed: Reflections on a Season of Revival

The 2025-2026 Roetzel Family Lecture, made possible by the generosity of Cal Roetzel and his family, will be John Modern discussing "The Religion of AI Observed: Reflections on a Season of Revival."

Modern, the Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, will sketch a religious history of computer science and artificial neural networks, It is a story that is jagged, ironic, and unreasonable, told in the hopes of being unassimilable into the large language models that seek to calcify—in order to instrumentalize-- their common sense about religion and much else besides.

There will be light refreshments to follow the event.

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